Newborn Baby Killings On The Increase in Pakistan

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Newborn Baby Killings On The Increase in Pakistan
January 17th, 2011 |

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Destined for the dump: infanticide is on the increase in Pakistan - particularly of girls, who are seen as of lower economic value

Human life as economic detritus, destined for the dump in Pakistan. They are mainly girls, of course:

KARACHI: The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city’s garbage dumps.

“They can only have been one or two days old,” says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity’s morgue.

In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.

More than 1,000 infants – most of them girls – were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.

Read more here

http://undhimmi.com/2011/01/17/newborn-baby-killings-on-the-increase-in-pakistan/
 
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