ISLAMABAD: Poverty has declined significantly in Punjab in the last 20 years. It reduced from 61.8 percent population living below the poverty line in 1998-99 to 16.3 percent in 2018-19. Balochistan was on top among the provinces with 40 percent population in clutches of impoverishment in 2018-19 but 20 years back in 1998-99; KP used […]
China’s President Xi Jinping has declared complete victory in his government’s effort to eradicate rural poverty, lifting the income of nearly 100 million people over the past eight years. The Chinese leader made the announcement at a ceremony in Beijing on Thursday to mark what has been described as a signature initiative of his tenure. […]
James bond Veteran Hollywood actor Sean Connery has passed away at the age of 90. The Scottish-born actor was best known for starring in seven James Bond films including Dr No and Goldfinger. Connery was raised in near poverty in the slums of Edinburgh and worked as a; coffin polisher; milkman and lifeguard before his […]