World Bank disputes Pakistan's poverty claims, flags deep rural crisis and economic stagnation

Islamabad [Pakistan], October 31 (ANI): The World Bank has questioned Pakistan's recent claims of poverty reduction, observing that only limited groups within the poor have witnessed any marginal improvement, while rural populations continue to languish under worsening economic pressures.

The World Bank said that its models for measuring poverty were meant to provide general trends, not statistically precise data