ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s crude birth rate is currently estimated at 40.5 per thousand of population, Pakistan Fertility Survey Report issued here today [Oct 25] shows. But, there is an encouraging sign regarding population planning, because 49 per cent of the 5,000 women under 50 years of age, who were queried, do not want another child… . This percentage increases with age and the number of living children. Fifty-four per cent of urban respondents do not want future birth, while 47 per cent of the rural women would not like another birth. The … Survey was carried out by the Population Planning Division and its affiliate organisations, in association with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, and the US Aid.
[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from New York,] a Newsweek Magazine poll published yesterday [Oct 24], scarcely a week before the Nov. 2 Presidential election, showed Jimmy Carter comfortably ahead of Gerald Ford. … The poll gives Mr Carter 308 electoral votes to 88 for Mr Ford, with 142 uncertain. For election, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes. There have been contradictory reports as to who is in the lead in the campaign… .
Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2026
