LAHORE: Federal Minister for Social Welfare Dar Firdaus Ashiq Awan has claimed that two holidays a week will result in an increase in population as in such a situation they will have no work.
Taking part in Capital Talk of Geo News programme on Thursday, she said that was a reality that the labour class families have up to 12 children. However, she said the government would introduce a new population policy. MNA Hanif Abbasi termed the fast population growth a bomb that needed special attention of the government.
Columnist and woman activist Bushra Rehman said the labour class continues producing children without caring about its after effects. Another participant of the programme, Maulvi Ismatullah, said population planning was against the Quran and Sunnah teachings and the government should be careful in making laws in this regard.
