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Balochistan has been called a "neglected province where a majority of population lacks amenities". Since the mid-1970s the province's share of Pakistan's GDP has dropped from 4.9 to 3.7%, and as of 2007 it had the highest poverty rate and infant and maternal mortality rate, and the lowest literacy rate in the country, factors some allege have contributed to the insurgency. However, in 7th NFC awards, Punjab province and Federal contributed to increasing Baluchistan share more than its entitled population based share. In Balochistan poverty is increasing. In 2001–2002 poverty incidences were at 48% and by 2005–2006 these were at 50.9%. According to a report on Dawn, the rate of multidimensional poverty in Balochistan had risen to 71% by 2016. I just wanted to know, as a Pakistani Canadian, what could I and many of the Pakistani ex-pats from Europe and North America could do to push more development within the region, and bring it further into the sphere of Pakistani politics and economic development, not as a region of rapid insurgency like Waziristan (where the insurgency has slowly withered away).
