Re: pakistan's population nightmare
May be iran has more educated population than pakistan? probably thats way Govt. could their msg across in better way.
their rural population isnt much different from pakistan's
during the shah's rule and the rule of ayatollah khomeini, iran's population was rapidly increasing (of course the iraq-iran war was occurring), but after khomeini's death, rafsanjani went ahead and initiated a vast family planning policy that cut the birth rate of iran in half within a decade.
you should do some reading on it, its very amazing how they managed to accomplish that feat.
maybe if other muslim nations were to heed their call, it would get somewhere, but alas, i think most are duped by mullahs to continue to have more and more children since they lack concern for resources and such.