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Family planning usually means birth control and or abortion access and religions usually oppose this as it leads to fewer followers.

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Point being that there isn't evidence that Pakistan:

* doesn't see 'family planning' as increasing population

* has religious traditions incompatible with any interpretation of 'family planning'

If Pakistan has a strongly increasing population then it will be in good position to take advantage of depopulation in China and elsewhere.

It isn't quite "religion" as much as it is vast numbers of the poorly educated population using "religion" to support their highly conservative views. Religions, including the dominant one in Pakistan, have a component of social responsibility.

Pakistan too has a trend of decreasing birth rate with increasing economic power across the economic classes of people, even though all ascribe to the same religion.

> Religions, including the dominant one in Pakistan, have a component of social responsibility.

Is 'family planning' not socially responsible?

Such a weird and untrue statement. Birth control is allowed in Islam. Maybe they don't trust them because of cases like the one where the CIA ran a fake vaccine program in order to collect DNA to help catch Bin Laden[0]. Or maybe it's because there isn't widespread access to healthcare. Or one of the other factors you are totally ignorant to

0- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277145-cias-hunt-for-o...

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