India, July 11 -- Pakistan has constituted a high-level committee on population management that includes Field Marshal Asim Munir, expanding the military chief's role into another area of public policy as the country grapples with one of the fastest population growth rates in South Asia.

The development was announced by Pakistan's health minister Syed Mustafa Kamal during a joint meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services and the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights, newspaper Dawn reported. Kamal reportedly told lawmakers that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had convened several high-level meetings on population management and constituted a committee to address the issue.

Besides Munir, the committee incl...