The World Bank has shown an enormous rise in the suicide rate in Pakistan in its recent report, and quoted a shocking figure of 7,000 cases of suicide in 2008, the first year of the incumbent government.
In its 126-page report "Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition, Tackling Non-communicable Diseases in South Asia", the World Bank revealed that 10-16 per cent of Pakistanis suffer from mild to moderate psychiatric illnesses.
"Suicide rates have surged in recent years from a few hundred pre-1990s to almost 7,000 in 2008," The News quoted the report, as saying.
Hypertension amongst the people of Pakistan is also in the rise.
Widespread poverty, illiteracy, unemployment & the rising tide of pakistan Army-backed Islamic extremism, the likes of which is preached and practiced by outfits like the Al-Qaeda have been responsible for the degenerate condition of the people in the Islamic Republic of pakistsn.
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