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ISLAMABAD: A new World Bank report on the impact of Covid-19 on South Asia’s youth says the pandemic has created 1.6 million additional idle youth in Pakistan. The report says pre-school enrollment at the end of 2021 was down by more than 15 percentage points in Pakistan. Enrollment among Pakistani children between the ages of six and 14 dropped by six percentage …

ISLAMABAD: Karachi’s urban environment and infrastructure provision have not kept pace with its growth, and green areas have decreased by four per cent, whereas the urban extent in the core city has expanded by 8pc between 2005 and 2017, says a new World Bank report. The WB report titled ‘The hidden wealth of cities: creating, financing and managing public places’, launched at …