Traders and customers gather at a crowded vegetable market in Peshawar, Pakistan, on April 2 during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against Covid-19. While Pakistan’s population has almost quadrupled since 1970, its economic growth has not kept pace and fallen far behind many economies in East Asia. Photo: AFP
Traders and customers gather at a crowded vegetable market in Peshawar, Pakistan, on April 2 during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against Covid-19. While Pakistan’s population has almost quadrupled since 1970, its economic growth has not kept pace and fallen far behind many economies in East Asia. Photo: AFP