150 Pakistanis committed suicide: HRCP report
KARACHI, August 12 2005: A total of one hundred and fifty persons committed suicide in the country during June 24 to July 24, according to a report carried in the journal of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan for the current month.
The report in journal titled ‘Jihad-e-Huq’ said that the data relating to the suicides was compiled on the basis of information received from the correspondents as also from reports published in the newspapers.
Among the 150 persons committing suicide in a month period the number of women was forty-one. The report further said that during the above period forty persons who tried to commit suicide were saved by prompt provision of medical aid. These persons included fifteen women.
One of the worst instances of suicide, a reflection on the growing inability of the law-enforcing agencies to check sexual crimes, was the suicide of the fifteen-year old boy Murad Babar of Village Murad Banbur of Khairpur Nathan Shah Tehsil in Dadu district, who was criminally assaulted.
The boy could not bear the stigma, and committed suicide while the perpetrators of the crime have yet to be given punishment laid down in the law.
Several of the persons committed suicide because of poverty, while many others did so due to troubles in the family or with relatives.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:8/12/2005
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