50% of Pakistanis support government: Survey

Fifty percent of Pakistan's population supports the present government, with 49 percent favouring the opposition, a survey has found.

An opinion poll conducted Aug 1-26 by the International Republican Institute (IRI), which works in countries important to the US's interests, has revealed that 50% of Pakistanis support the current Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, the Dawn reported.

However, 49 % favoured the opposition.

The IRI took national representative sample of adults from 70 districts in all provinces of Pakistan, excluding the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Chitral.

A whopping 89% people favoured the Pakistan Army as a national institution for efficiency and performance.

Forty-two percent of the respondents said electricity was the the most troubling issue that the country faced while 21% felt inflation was the bane. But only 12%  of the people said unemployment was a major problem in the country.

Ten percent of the population think terrorism is a major threat.