Population Welfare Department Tank on Monday organized a one-day seminar to sensitize people about population welfare-related issues. The training workshop was attended by the field staff on the special directives of Provincial Government, Secretary Population under the supervision of deputy commissioner Tank to educate citizens on various matters pertaining to the impact of population on resources.
District Population Welfare Officer Tank Dr Muhammad Tariq said that Pakistan is the fifth largest country in the world in terms of population and the first among Muslim countries. He added that if the growth of our population continued at this rate then after 29 years the population of our country would double.
He said that the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was currently more than 40 million, which was increasing by one million people every year. He was of the view that cities were expanding and agricultural land was shrinking, and the gap between food supply and demand was widening.—INP
