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Islamabad, April 7 (IANS) Poverty in Pakistan is structural and not cyclical with the tariffs paid by the people of the country today not being the price of electricity but recovery of past multi-billion dollar policy errors, a report has highlighted. According to Pakistan’s Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, around 50 million Pakistanis were living below the poverty line in 2018. By 2024, the number had increased to roughly 70 million.”In 2018, the average electricity ta…