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March 15, 2010

Population Policy: Will It Work?

by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - In many ways, the story of Pakistan is one of a failure of family planning. Although the Family Planning Association of Pakistan was set up as early as 1952, we have seen a five-fold increase in our population between 1951 and 2009, from 34 million to 171 million.

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