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Dua Zehra Kazmi is a girl from Karachi, Pakistan who went missing from her home on 16 April 2022 [1] and days after was found, married to a boy in Okara, Punjab. [2] The case made headlines across the country and continued to dominate the news cycle for months.
A report released by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in 2020 said that nearly 45.8 million girls were missing in India due to pre and post-birth selection practices in the country. [55] A study by Washington based think tank Pew Research said that at least 9 million girls are ‘missing’ in India between 2009-2019 as a result of female ...
Namrita Chandani [1] [2] [3] also known as Namrita Amarta Maher Chandani or Namrita Kumari, was a Sindhi Hindu girl from Mirpur Mathelo, Ghotki, Sindh, Pakistan. She was a final year student at Bibi Asifa Dental College Larkana when she was found dead [4] in her hostel room on 16 September 2019. [5] [6] There was wide speculation about the ...
Infanticide is illegal in Pakistan. However, people do not report these cases, making it impossible for police to investigate. According to National Right to Live News, in 2017, only one case was actually reported, but 345 babies were found dead in Pakistan's capital between January 2017 and Spring of 2018. [26]
Zainab Amin Ansari (Urdu: زینب امین انصاری; c. 2010 – January 2018) was a seven-year-old Pakistani girl who was abducted in her hometown of Kasur, Punjab while she was on her way to Quran recitation classes on 4 January 2018.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police ...
In 2005, the government of India unveiled a bold scheme to bring its poorest citizens into the 21st century. It would commission a series of coal-fired power plants — each with seven times the capacity of its average U.S. counterpart — that would provide cheap electricity in a country where one-third of the population lives off the grid.
On the other hand, Guilmoto in his 2010 report uses recent data (except for Pakistan), and estimates a much lower number of missing girls in Asian and non-Asian countries, but notes that the higher sex ratios in numerous countries have created a gender gap – shortage of girls – in the 0–19 age group. [27]