The UN Sustainable Development Report 2025 shows only 17% of SDG targets are on track. India ranks 99th, marking progress, ...

India-Pakistan Enter Third Night of Conflict Amid Efforts at Peace Both countries accused each other of aiming attacks at territories well beyond their disputed Kashmir border. As night fell late ...

Pakistan’s track record on global development commitments is becoming a cautionary tale. With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index score falling to 57.02 in 2024 and Pakistan ranking ...

LONDON: President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred Pakistan’s highest civilian award - the Hilal-e-Imtiaz – upon Dubai-based Pakistani origin businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor in recognition of his ser ...

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality ...

Most notably, it is also recorded that Pakistan could not achieve the target of poverty reduction and millennium development goals (MDGs), because of the extending income gap (Abdullah et al., 2015; ...

Compared to the MDGs, the SDGs are much more comprehensive and inclusive with tri-dimensional focus on economic development, social well-being and environmental protection.

In the past decades, global advocacy measures, such as the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, the MDGs, and the growing emphasis of international donor community on maternal and child health have ...

Sustainable Development Goals have not only replaced the “Millennium Development Goals - MDGs” but also provided a new development paradigm for humanity where development has become a ...

Importantly, in Pakistan parliament has adopted the SDGs as a national development agenda unlike the MDGs that were generally considered an UN-driven initiative only to be complied with by four ...