Asem Mustafa Awan
The smiles on their beaming faces is priceless as they are happy but does it change anything for them the answer is ‘no’. They have inadequate clothes for winter and they are without shoes and this is nearly in all the flood-affected areas in Pakistan.
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Xari Jalil
Lahore: Sixteen-year-old Sooraj Meghwar seemed to be a regular young man – his likes and dislikes, his mood swings – they were all as ‘normal’ as in any other young man from his community in Samaro, Umerkot. Nothing about Sooraj seemed out of the ordinary, so when on May 8, 2022, he was found hanging from his neck from the branch of a tree, his village people were shocked and saddened.
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Rehan Piracha
Lahore: As an important step towards preventing suicides, President Arif Alvi gave his assent to legislation abolishing the punishment for attempted suicide. According to the announcement issued by the President House on December 23, Alvi approved the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2022, repealing Section 325 of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, which deals with penalising suicide attempts.
