The Dawn of Pakistan on population growth: The government has been painting a rosy picture of the population scene in Pakistan. But a document prepared by some agencies has exploded the myth propagated by the prime minister that the population growth rate has come down to 1.8 per cent and will be further reduced to 1.3 per cent by 2020. The document obtained by this paper says that the population is growing at the rate of two per cent per annum. Not much will be gained by juggling with figures to deceive people since erroneous calculations will only result in lopsided planning. Besides, it lulls the population policymakers into a false sense of complacency with no effort being made to analyse the factors that are contributing to such a high population growth rate in Pakistan.