Rising cases of suicide
May 16, 2021
There are certain hotspots of suicide in the country, and the common thread running through these places is poverty and dearth of job opportunities resulting from the lack of development. Some of these areas, where privations are rife, are a few districts in Sindh and Chitral district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Sometimes forced marriages too lead young women to take their own life. Recently, two poor young men and a destitute young woman killed themselves by jumping into the Chitral river where poor and desperate people prefer to end their lives. At least 40 suicides in 2018 and 25 in 2017 were reported in Chitral district. The K-P government had constituted a committee to investigate the increasing incidents of suicide in the district. It is not known whether the committee had completed its task and submitted its report to the authorities. ....