Pakistan Population Summit 2025

GENERAL SESSION 1: Inaugural Session

Time: 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
  • Welcome Announcement
  • National Anthem & Recitation
  • Welcome Address: Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, CEO, Dawn
  • Inaugural Address: Senator Sherry Rehman, the Chair of Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change and Rnvironmental Coordintaion & Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the senate.
  • Keynote Address: Shaista Pervaiz Malik, Member of the National Assembly, Foreign Affairs Committee, Climate Change Committee and Convenor of the Task Force on SDGs
  • Video Message: Prof. Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary, Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives

GENERAL SESSION 2: Restoring the Population Balance by 2050

Time: 10:55 AM – 11:40 AM
  • Session Chair & Keynote Address: Dr. Zeba A. Sathar, Country Director, Pakistan, Population Council
  • Speaker: Dr. Hanid Mukhtar, Fellow, Consortium for Development Policy Research
  • Speaker: Dr. G.M. Arif, Former Joint Director, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
  • Speaker: Mr. Sam Waldock, Development Director, British High Commission

GENERAL SESSION 3: Accelerating Economic Growth Towards a More Optimal Balance

Time: 11:55 AM – 1:05 PM
  • Session Chair: Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, Federal Minister for Finance & Revenue
  • Co-Chair & Address: Her Excellency Jane Marriott, CMG OBE, British High Commissioner to Pakistan
  • Keynote Address: Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi, Executive Director, IBA, Karachi
  • Speaker: Dr. Ali Cheema, Vice Chancellor, Lahore University of Management Sciences
  • Speaker: Dr. Bolormaa Amgaabazar, Country Director for Pakistan, World Bank

GENERAL SESSION 4: Translating Political Resolve into Action on the TAWAZUN Narrative

Time: 1:10 PM – 2:00 PM
  • Keynote Address & Panel Moderator: Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Founding Chairman, Parliamentary Forum on Population
  • Video Message: Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar, Federal Minister for Law & Justice
  • Panelist: Dr. Nafisa Shah, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
  • Panelist: Dr. Muhammad Farooq Sattar, Member of the National Assembly
  • Panelist: Shaista Pervaiz, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
  • Panelist: Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra, Former Minister for Finance & Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

GENERAL SESSION 5: Regional Review of Population & Economic Growth

Time: 2:35 PM – 3:35 PM
  • Session Chair: Dr. Luay Shabaneh, Representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Pakistan
  • Keynote Address: Dr. Rashid Amjad, Director, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Lahore School of Economics
  • Speaker: H.E. Rahmat Hindiarta Kusuma, Charge’D Affaires, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia


Dr. Shabaneh in conversation with Dr. Rashid Amjad, Director, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Lahore School of Economics & Prof. Mehtab S. Karim, President, Population Association of Pakistan

GENERAL SESSION 6: The Human Development Crisis

Time: 3:40 PM – 4:10 PM
  • Session Chair: Raza Rabbani, Former Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan
  • Keynote Address: Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Former Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

GENERAL SESSION 7: A Heightened Responsibility to Restore the Balance Between the Centre and the Provinces

Time: 4:15 PM – 5:10 PM
  • Session Chair: Dr. Malik Mukhtar Ahmed Bharath, Minister of State for National Health Services, Coordination & Regulation
  • Online Speaker: Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, Minister for Health & Population Welfare, Sindh
  • Video Message: Khawaja Imran Nazir, Minister for Health & Population Welfare, Punjab
  • Video Message: Shakeel Qadir Khan, Chief Secretary Balochistan
  • Panel Moderator: Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Former Member of the National Assembly
  • Panelist: Nadia Saquib, Secretary, Health & Population Department, Punjab
  • Panelist: Dr. Aneela Mehfooz Durrani, Secretary, Population Welfare Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Panelist: Javaid Ali Manwa, Former Member of the Provincial Assembly of Gilgit-Baltistan
  • Panelist: Raja Muhammad Razzaque, Secretary (Retd) Population Welfare Dept. Govt. of AJK