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New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) The World Bank's October 2026 regional update highlights that roughly 48 per cent of all people living below the $3 a day poverty line across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAAP) region are Pakistani, while the remaining 47 per cent are in Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen.
Pakistan, thus, holds nearly as many extremely poor people as three active war zones combined, without a wa…
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