What is the main reason rural people prefer to live and stay in urban cities more than villages? In South Asia, Pakistan has the highest urbanisation rate, 36.4 in 2017 which was 32.5 in 1988. But due to lack of facilities and less education in villages, the public love to settle in the cities. In 1947, the year of Partition, masses of Indian Muslims (estimates range from 6 million to 8 million) crossed the new border. In the 1990s, the anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan spawned a new exodus into urban Pakistan.

Source: Pakistan Today November 02, 2021 22:03 UTC