Pakistan, Feb. 17 -- Cities and especially the big metropolitan cities always carry certain attractions for the dwellers of suburbs and villages. This is supplemented by the availability of better education, health and employment facilities and opportunities in urban areas. According to demographers, there are basically three major components of bludgeoning urban growth ie rural to urban migration, transformation of previously non-urban areas into the urban one and rapid population hike - the third one being the strongest of all.

Pakistan has experienced browbeating increase in the urban population in last two decades. According to the official data, urbanisation rate in Pakistan is the highest in the entire Asian region. The urban popul...