 The study explored the socio-demographic determinants of nutritional status of Pakistani women using secondary data from the recently conducted Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, PDHS 2017-18. The results suggest that overweight slash obesity is becoming a serious problem as compared to under nutrition in Pakistani women. Privileged women with respect to education, economic status, urbanization, sedentary lifestyle, have more chances to have higher body mass index, BMI, overweight or obese. Women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan are at higher risk of overweight slash obesity as compared to Punjabis. This article was authored by Asafa Kamal, Akses Karali and Samina Irfan.