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A Pakistani farmer in the village of Mahool Baloch in the Loralai district Waqar Ahmed house, Khuian district (کھوئیاں), Chakwal village of Pakistan Amra Kalan village in Kharian, Pakistan. Pakistani village life (Urdu: پاکستانی گاؤں کی زندگی) is the traditional rural life of the people of Pakistan.
When people are employed gainfully in villages, the migration of people from rural to urban areas will reduce. The acute problems of housing, sanitation, education, transport and health will be reduced in urban areas. Many districts are under-developed. With the expansion of such industries, the regional disparity in income can be reduced.
Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. [24] Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty , poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and ...
Poverty in Pakistan has historically been higher in rural areas and lower in the cities. Out of the total 40 million living below the poverty line, thirty million live in rural areas. Poverty rose sharply in the rural areas in the 1990s [18] and the gap in income between urban and rural areas of the country became more significant. This trend ...
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Feudalism in contemporary Pakistan usually refers to the power and influence of large landowning families, particularly those with very large estates in more remote areas. [1] The adjective " feudal " in the context of Pakistan has been used to mean "a relatively small group of politically active and powerful landowners."
Despite Urdu being Pakistan's lingua franca, estimates on how many languages are spoken in the country range from 75 to 85, [7] [8] and in 2023, the country's three largest ethnolinguistic groups were the Punjabis (making up 36.98% of the total population), the Pashtuns (18.15%), and the Sindhis (14.31%). [9]
Gujranwala city's adult literacy rate in 2008 was 73%, [65] which rose to 87% in the 15–24 age group throughout Gujranwala District, [66] including rural areas. The city is also home to the Gujranwala Theological Seminary which was established in Sialkot in 1877, and moved to Gujranwala in 1912. [ 67 ]