Citizens’ Movement for Population Reforms

Pakistan’s population, estimated to cross 300 million by 2040, threatens to negate all its endeavors for economic progress, social reforms, peace or improving the lives of its ordinary citizens. The unchecked rate of population growth has already made it impossible for Pakistan to break the vicious cycle of disease, poverty, violence and under development. Let there be no doubt that Pakistan is doomed to sink under the weight of its own population.

As responsible and concerned citizens, we appeal to the government to urgently adopt the following critical population reforms.

Learning from Iran, India, Bangladesh and Turkey, Pakistan ought to bring down its medieval Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 3.5 to 2.0.

Headed by the PM and the CMs, Task Forces be created at Federal and provincial levels to achieve key Family Planning (FP) goals.

Minimum age for marriage (18 years) be legislated and enforced in all regions of the country and pre-marital FP counselling be made mandatory.

Integrate FP services with routine health care at all health posts and by all cadres of health care providers (HCPs).

Ensure 100 % coverage of families and homes across Pakistan by Community Health Workers for FP counseling and relevant services.

Both incentives and punitive programs may be created (perhaps built-in with Benazir Income Support Program) to ensure compulsory education for boys and girls till class 10. Similar policies be also made to incentivize couples to have smaller families and to delay the first pregnancy until the age of 20 years.

Political leaders, corporate sector, academia, judiciary, religious leaders, media, intelligentsia, civil society and youth be galvanized in organizing FP campaigns. Engage religious leaders of all faiths in Pakistan to advocate and endorse the national narrative on family planning. Include family planning messages in Friday sermons in all mosques and places of worship.

Raise the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) in Pakistan to 50 % by 2025. Also, easy and inexpensive access to contraceptives be ensured at all Service Delivery Points.

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Endorsed by:

Aaliya k Dossa

Aamir Khan Dotani

Aasif Durrani

Abdullah Mangi

Adnan Mahmood

Adnan Rehmat

Adnan Sohail

Afia Salam

Afshan Khan

Ahmed Fraz

Ahmed Raza Khan

Ahsan Rajput

Ali Kumail Qazalbash

Ali Qaisrani

Ali Wahdat

Aliya Iqbal Naqvi

Aliya Sikandar

Almas Mehmood

Ambareen Kazim Thompson

Ambreen Salman Qureshi

Amna Abrar

Amna Salman Butt

Anila Yousuf

Anjum Tariq

Anoosh Khan

Answer Jafri

Arieb Azhar

Arifa Samad

Aroona Kamal

Arshad Siraj

Asad A. Kizilbash

Asad Ali Wahidi

Asif Razzak

Asim Siddiqui

Atia Azam

Atiqua Vally

Ayesha Gazdar

Ayesha Islam

Ayesha Jamal Leghari

Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Shamshad

Ayesha Shibli

Ayla Butt

Azam Chowdhry

Azfar Shamim

Azhar Jamil

Azmyr Raja

Azra Raza

Baela Raza Jamil

Basarat Kazim

Batool Nasir

Billy Quettawala

Bina Ali

Bina Ali Zaidi

Bina Jawwad

Cheryl Najam

Danish Ahmed Khan

Danny Dhalla

Dr. Affifa Farrukh

Dr. Ayra Indrias Patras

Dr. Azra Ahsan

Dr. Baqar Nawab

Dr. Ghazala Aziz

Dr. Habiba Hasan

Dr. Haroon Ahmed

Dr. Kartar Dawani

Dr. Kishwar Enam

Dr. Marium Waqas

Dr. Maryam Ali

Dr. Munawer Sher Khan

Dr. Murad Musa

Dr. Naseem Salahuddin

Dr. Nelofer Halai

Dr. Rabia Naeem

Dr. Sadia Pasha Kamran

Dr. Saif Ali Khan

Dr. Salma Badruddin

Dr. Samia Babar

Dr. Samina Nadeem

Dr. Sharmeen Mustafa

Dr. Shehla Alvi

Dr. Shehla Naqvi

Dr. Shershah Syed

Dr. Sidra Ahmed

Dr. Tariq Banuri

Dr. Tasnim Ahsan

Dr. Yasmin Kazi

Dr. Zainab Hasan

Dr. Zeba Vanek

Elaine Alam

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Faiza Hashwany

Faiza Shaikh

Farah Ali

Farah Muqadas

Fareeha Zafar

Farida Jahangir

Farida Shaheed

Farooq Dawood

Farooq Nazmi

Farrukh Shaukat Ansari

Farukh Pracha

Fatima Hamid

Fauzia Ali

Fauzia Minallah

Fauzia Nasir

Fauzia Qureshi

Fauzia Yazdani

Fiza Asar

Ghazala Nomani

Ghazala Sohail

Ghazanfar Ali Butt

Ghazi Salahuddin

Ghulam Abbas Junejo

Glenis Piedade D’Souza

Gohar Khan

Hamama tul Bushra

Hamid Khawaja

Harris Khalique

Hasan A. Rizvi

Hasnain Nawab

Hassan Akram

Hassan Dhanji

Hijab Syed

Hina Khwaja Bayat

Huma Pasha

Humaira Mumtaz Shaikh

Hussein El-Edroos

Iftikhar H. Malik

Isabella Christopher

Itrat Asir

Jamila John

Javaid Lotia

Javed Jabbar

Jawad Hamdani

Junaid Masood

Junaid Zuberi

Justice (R ) Majida Rizvi

Justin Main Thompson

Kaiser Tufail

Kamal Hyat

Kamal Siddiqui

Karim Yusuf

Kashfa Samad

Khadija Sana

Khawar Mumtaz

Khursheed Hyder

Kulsoom Aftab

Laila Aziz

Lubna Baig

Maham Ali

Maham Anis

Maham Qureshi

Maheen Islam Ahmed

Maheen Paracha

Mahenau Agha

Mahenaz Mahmud

Mahmood Yusuf

Mahnoor Sikandar

Mahpara Shakil Ghori

Mahzarine Gul

Maimoona Aijaz

Maliha Bhimjee

Maliha Hassan

Maliha Sayeed

Manizeh Bano

Maria Alfarhan

Maria Kokab

Maria Riaz Tauseef

Mariam Shah

Mariam Shera

Marvi Mazhar

Masood Lohar

Masuma Halai Khwaja

Mateen Khan

Meeran Malik

Mehreen Hosain

Mikael Main Thompson

Minhaj Ali Khan

Mirza Zafar Hussain

Misbah Ishaq Khalid

Mohammad Ali

Mohammed Sohail

Mohsin Safdar

Moyena Ahmed

Mueen Batley

Muhammad Faheem

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Mukhtar Husain

Muna Nana

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Munnaza Parveen

Naazish Ata-Ullah

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Nabila Makhdoom

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Naeem Ahmed

Naeem Sadiq

Nageen Hyat

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Naila Ahmed

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Niilofur Farrukh

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