Very little of the intense interest and activity in the field
of family planning in Pakistan has come up in the form of publications.
Since the formation of the Family Planning Association of Pakistan in
1953 and the initiative of the government in promoting a national
family-planning programme in its Second Five-Year Plan, relatively few
reports have been printed. Most of what has been written in Pakistan
about family planning has either been reported at conferences abroad or
published in foreign journals, or submitted as graduate dissertations at
universities within the country and abroad1. While numerous papers
presented at conferences in Pakistan have been given limited circulation
in mimeographed form2, much of the preliminary data, emanating from most
of the action-research projects in progress, are held up till
substantive demographic changes are measured and approaches evaluated
accordingly.