Why are toddler girls at risk of death and undernutrition in a slum area of Pakistan? Lancet, 1984; 1: 797.Lovel, H.J., N.I. Sabir & J. Cleland (1984). Why are toddler girls at risk of death and under nutrition in a slum area of Pakistan, Lancet, 1:797-808....
Over half of all sub-Saharan countries included in this analysis (24 of 43) had at least one unit where the mean combined DALY rate was greater than 0.5 per child per year (Fig. 2a), and among these, 19 had subnational variation large enough that some units had at least twice the ...
In 1998, he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the highest civilian award in Pakistan, reflecting his enduring popularity across borders. Despite facing numerous health issues towards the latter part of his life, Kumar remained active in public life, leaving behind a legacy that transcends ...
Child mortality rate by level of economic development in 2010, select developing countries. Source: World Bank Database Full size image An important avenue of explanation focuses on women’s status (Caldwell 1986; Malhotra and Schuler 2005). Previous research has posited a number of plausible link...
While SM Krishna and Perneet Kaur, are vehemently appealing Pakistan to releaseSarabjit Singh on humanitarian grounds, on the other hand Indian Government hasalways shown a merciless attitude in the cases of Sikhs who have been awardeddeath sentence in India added Peermohammad. Since 1984 several...
18 1.3.5 However, according to the Crime in India19 reports, published by the National Crime Records Bureau ('NCRB') under the aegis of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the murder rate has been in continuous and uninterrupted decline since 1992, when it was 4.6 per lakh of population.20 As...
During 1975-85 postneonatal mortality in all immigrant groups except Pakistanis fell to a similar or lower rate than that in the United Kingdom group; Pakistanis showed a persistent excess. During 1984-5 several immigrant groups (from the Republic of Ireland, India, west Africa, and the ...
Because of its close proximity to the line of control, Kargil has often been the site of border conflicts between India andPakistan. The largest and deadliest of these clashes was theKargil War, which took place in May–July 1999. In early May the Indian military learned that Pakistani fighte...
Shortly after theSoviet UnioninvadedAfghanistanin 1979, bin Laden, who viewed the invasion as an act of aggression againstIslam, began traveling to meetAfghan resistanceleaders and raise funds for the resistance. By 1984 his activities were centred mainly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where hecollabora...
in the early 1920s. The omission is understandable, since Nehru’s role in Indian politics was secondary until he was elected president of the Congress Party in 1929, when he presided over the historic session atLahore(now inPakistan) that proclaimed complete independence as India’s political ...