Around 460,000 under 5 die annually in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - The under-five mortality rate stands at 89 deaths per 1,000 live births in Pakistan and an estimated 460,000 under five die each year in the country, one of the biggest rates in South Asia. Around 30% of children in Pakistan are chronically malnourished and 2.1 million babies are born in Pakistan with severe intellectual impairment caused by iodine deficiency. According to a report launched by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), the recent figures of the

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