Livestock is 62.45% of agricultural value added and 14.64% of total GDP.
Source
Pakistan Economic Survey — https://finance.gov.pk/survey/chapter_26/Highlights_of_the_PES_2026.pdf. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Agriculture is not synonymous with crops; livestock dominates sector value added.
What it does not prove: This is a share of value added, not of land, water, subsidy or credit, so livestock's 62.45% dominance describes where output value sits, not where policy support goes. The share is also partly passive: with important crops growing only 0.65% in the same year, livestock's weight rises because the crop denominator is weak, not solely because herds are booming.
Memory hook: 62.45% → livestock, not wheat or cotton, is agriculture's real centre of gravity
Rebuts the claim: "Agricultural policy means crop policy — support prices for wheat and cotton are the sector's main lever" — that reaches barely a third of sectoral value added.