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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Killing Of Infants On The Rise In Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) -- At a morgue in Pakistan's largest city, five linen pouches -- each the size of a loaf of bread -- line the shelf of a walk-in freezer.

Wrapped inside each small sack is the corpse of an infant.

The babies are victims of what one relief agency calls Pakistan's worst unfolding tragedy -- the killing and dumping of newborns.

"Sometimes they hang them and sometimes they kill by the knife, and sometimes we find bodies which have been burned," said Anwar Kazmi, a manager at Edhi Foundation, Pakistan's largest privately run social service and relief agency.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They whole bunch over there are just plain crazy!

Anonymous said...

gotta start scaling back on the worlds population somewhere...and the middle east seem like a good place to start to me.