Opening
Time: 9:30 AM – 9:35 AM
A 3-minute data video — stark, visual, human — showing Pakistan’s maternal and child mortality and deficiency number.
SESSION 5: Population & Resources ( Population Council )
Time: 9:35 AM – 10:45 AM
Chair: Dr. Shabana Haider, Member Population Planning Commission
Session Moderator: Dr. Saima Hamid, Program and Research Lead, Population Council
- UNFPA
- Dr. Ali Mir — Country Director, Population Council
- Adv. Humaira Masihuddin — Scholar & Legal Expert on Islamic Jurisprudence
- Mr. Adnan Pasha Siddiqui — Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Government of Pakistan
- Ms. Sara Shahzad — Senior Health Specialist, World Bank
- Mr. Hafeezullah Abbasi — Secretary Population Welfare, Government of Sindh
- Capt. (R) Dr. Usman Ali Khan — Project Director, Punjab Family Planning Program
Tea Break: 10:50 AM – 11:05 AM
SESSION 6: The System Behind the Numbers: Fixing Pakistan’s Health Services ( IRF )
Time: 11:05 AM – 12:15 PM
- Federal Nutrition Representative
- Dr. Shahana Parveen (or equivalent) — Senior Lady Health Worker Programme Leaderl
- Representative — Indus Hospital & Health Network
- Representative — WHO Pakistan or UNICEF Pakistan
- A Civil Society Voice
WASH & the Infrastructure of Malnutrition ( UNICEF )
Only 36% of Pakistan’s population has access to safely managed drinking water — a core driver of the stunting crisis, not a peripheral issue.
- UNICEF WASH Pakistan Representative — the link between water/sanitation infrastructure and stunting by district
- Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) — state of drinking-water safety in the highest-stunting regions
- Sanaa Causar, Hisaar
- Water Aid
SESSION 7: Women: The Nation Carried on Their Backs (IRF)
Time: 12:20 PM – 1:00 PM
This session moves from data to human reality: the deficiencies, the institutional failures, who bears the heaviest burden — and the on-ground solutions civil society, hospitals, and NGOs are already building.
- Neha Mankani — Maternal Health and Climate Specialist; Founder, Mama Baby Fund
- Dr. Hana Mahmood — MNCHRN
- Dr. Sadiah Ahsan Pal — Consultant Obstetrician, Gynaecologist & IVF Specialist
- Pernille Ironside — UNICEF Representative, Pakistan
- WHO
Lunch Break: 1:05 PM – 1:40 PM
1:45- 1:55 Dramatic Reading: “Letters Never Sent”
5 minutes. A single performer reads three original letters — a malnourished mother to the daughter she lost; a stunted young man at 22 to who he could have been; an unborn child to the country that will decide her fate. No theatrics, no music.
SESSION 8: Making Nutrition Matter: Communicating for Behaviour Change
A new session, added per SS’s note, on how Pakistan communicates nutrition to the people it is meant to serve — moving beyond posters and slogans to genuine behaviour-change communication.
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:35 PM
- Attaullah Tarar — Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting
- Azma Bukhari — Minister for Information & Culture, Punjab
- Sharjeel Memon — Senior Minister & Minister for Information, Sindh
- Information Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — TBC — to confirm current officeholder
- Information Minister, Balochistan — TBC — to confirm current officeholder
- Shahnaz Wazir Ali — President, SZABIST; former Federal Minister of State for Education
- Sarwat Gillani — Celebrity voice on public health/education awareness
Tea Break: 3:35 PM – 3:45 PM
SESSION 9: Stronger Together: The Pakistan Nutrition Pact (include only if time permits)
Time: 3:45 PM – 4:25 PM
Closing Address
Time: 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM
- A Child Rights or Civil Society Voice — 5 minutes
- A Government Voice — Federal Minister of Health or Finance — 5 minutes
- Dawn Media — Closing remarks and campaign commitment — 5 minutes
