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OVER the past two decades, successive governments have sidestepped the issue of population control and hidden behind a plethora of poverty alleviation and social development schemes. With some 225m people, Pakistan has the world’s fifth largest population. With a national growth rate of around 2pc, at least 4.4m people are added to the existing numbers every year. This addition alone is equal to the combined population of 40 of the world’s smallest countries. Unfortunately, there is virtual silence on the subject on the part of our political leaders. Does this attitude result from complacency and a tendency to dismiss long-term challenges, or are our leaders simply not prepared to irk the religious right by bringing up the topic? Even at the Islamabad Security Dialogue held in March, the threat posed by our galloping numbers to the country’s natural and human resources hardly figured in the conversation. Surely, our political leadership led by the prime minister, who talks cand

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