3 out of 10 Pakistanis officially poor : Consequences of Pajama Leaks

[Pak1stani]

[h=1]3 out of 10 Pakistanis officially poor[/h]
ISLAMABAD: Three out of ten Pakistanis live below the poverty line, the government revealed on Thursday, as opposed to the previous figure of one in ten. As opposed to the previous 20 million, 59 million Pakistanis are now officially classified as poor.
The new figures emerged after the ministries of planning and finance devised a new methodology to calculate the percentage of people living below the poverty line. Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar unveiled the new method in the presence of international development partners on Thursday alongside the revised figure of the countrys poor population.
Pakistan has shifted from a formula based on food energy intake to one based on the cost of basic needs aimed at making the definition of poor more realistic. However, the government again did not change the unemployment definition, which has also become obsolete, recording a 5.9% jobless rate.



http://tribune.com.pk/story/1080956/3-out-of-10-pakistanis-officially-poor/

 

[Pak1stani]

جب حکمران ٹیکس نہیں دیں گے ملک لوٹ کر سارا پیسہ خفیہ کمپنیوں میں باھر رکھیں گے تو یہ نتیجہ ہونا ہے

 

[Raiwind-Destroyer]

 

[Pak1stani]

اب اکر ایک پٹواری کہے گا اگر عمران خان دھرنا نہ دیتا تو میاں سانپ نہاری کھا کھا کر پاکستان کو ایسی ترقی دیتے کہ آج سوئٹزر لینڈ بھی پاکستان سے قرضہ مانگ رہا ہوتا

 

[stranger]

qaum? hajoom hai ye hajoom..... jahalon or mufad paraston ka hajoom.....or maslehat amezon or ghulamon ka hajoom...

 

[Milk Shaykh]

 

[Nadeem..]

یہ اس وجہ سے کہ ہمارے شریف بھائی امیر ہو رہے ہیں

 

[lurker]

Its simply a matter of adjusting the formula for calculating and classifying who is considered poor. Saudi King probably considers 99% of the world as poor. lol. You can blame the current government for some of it and more on the formula and methodology for designation of Poverty. But we are Pakistanis after all.. thora sa mirch masala aur emotions ka tarka lagaye beghair shaam kaise katay gi? lol.