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Killing of infants on the rise in Pakistan

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Killing of infants on rise in Pakistan

At a morgue in Pakistan, five small pouches line the shelf of a walk-in freezer. Wrapped inside each is the corpse of an infant. The killing and dumping of newborns, mostly girls, is happening more often. FULL STORY

Killing of infants on the rise in Pakistan

Reza Sayah, CNN

July 20, 2011 5:30 p.m. EDT

Pakistan tragedy: The killing of newborn girls

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Records from group show more than 1,200 newborns killed and dumped in Pakistan last year

Many of those killed are girls because of cultural attitudes and poverty

In some countries, infanticide of girls is enough to skew population figures, U.N. says

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/pakistan.infanticide/index.html?hpt=hp_c1




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