Talk:Pakistan middle class

Dubious
The claim in this article that the middle-class in Pakistan numbers 84 million people, or well over 40% of the total population (sourced to a paysite and thus verifiable only with a subscription) is highly dubious, since this article in "The Express Tribune" from 2015 says that 5.7% of the adult population were middle class at that time. And there's no way that the middle class can have grown that fast in two years... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 23:24, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * A further look into it shows that it's all based on an unpublished paper by 'Aftab Associates', a market research company in Pakistan, who base their numbers on sales figures for things like motorcycles and washing machines, not on standards used internationally, such as the ones used by 'Credit Suisse' in the report quoted in the link I provided above. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 11:03, 28 February 2017 (UTC)