In Pakistan, there is a growing concern about a significant number of people, around 20 million, going below the poverty line. Unemployment, leading to a 10% annual increase, is causing 3 million individuals to join the impoverished class each year. The middle class has reduced from 42% to 33%, ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said human development, especially facilitating weaker segments of society and bringing them out of poverty, is top priority of his government. He was talking to a delegation of United Nations Development Program-led by UNDP Representative in Pakistan Ms. Aliona ...

ISLAMABAD – In a first, the Ministry of Human Rights of Pakistan has appointed a transgender person. Ayesha Moghul will be working in the Ministry of Human Rights as a resource person. Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari shared the details of appointment on her Twitter ...

ISLAMABAD - Consultative process on the federal government’s ten year development plan for the tribal districts has been launched in Bajaur tribal district. The first meeting of the three-week consultative process was held in Nawagai area on Wednesday. Tribal elders, political and social ...

Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood says Pakistan and UNDP can work together in several areas of education. He said this while talking to Acting Representative of UNDP Ignacio Artaza at a meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday. Shafqat Mehmood said Pakistan is working ...

ISLAMABAD - The unprecedented water inundation of 2004 namely Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami unveiled a new form of devastation to the world. Pakistan''s coastal areas particularly the Makran Subduction Zone (MSZ) had major tsunami threats that under went a destructive tsunamigenic ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has gone down one place, from 149 to 150th spot, in the latest human development index (HDI) ranking issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Giving Pakistan an HDI value of 0.562, the report found that the life expectancy at birth in the country is 66.6 ...

ISLAMABAD: United Nations Development Programme's Resident Representative in Pakistan Neil Buhne called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan at Bani Gala in Islamabad and felicitated him on his party's success in general election. During the meeting, Neil Buhne said we had worked with ...

ISLAMABAD - United Nations Development Programme's Resident Representative in Pakistan Neil Buhne met Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan at Banigala in Islamabad on Tuesday. Neil Buhne felicitated Imran Khan on his party's success in general elections. During the meeting Neil Buhne ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a thirty seven million dollars project to protect thirty million people from dangerous glacial lake outburst floods.  The project was launched at a ceremony in Islamabad, which was attended by senior ...