Rubina Rehman, a government family welfare worker, counsels a young mother. (Pamela Constable/The Washington Post)For years, Pakistan’s soaring population growth has been evident in increasingly crowded schools, clinics and poor communities across this vast, Muslim-majority nation. One is Shireen Sukhun, a district officer for the Population Welfare Department in Punjab province. Inside, Rubina Rehman, a family welfare worker, listens all day to women’s problems with feverish babies, painful deliveries and other woes. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the population nearly doubled from 17.7 million in 1998 to 30.5 million this year.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2017 10:08 UTC