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Suicide on the rise in Pakistan; 1,600 lives lost

Dawn.com Published October 27, 2011
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The HRCP said that so far this year 1600 people committed suicide.—File photo

KARACHI: Sixteen hundred people took their lives during the last 10 months in Pakistan, DawnNews quoted the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) as saying.

The HRCP, moreover, expressed its concern over the increasing trend of suicide and stated that some 800 people had also unsuccessfully attempted to take their own lives.

The commission sighted poverty and hopelessness as the main reasons behind the troubling trend.

The HRCP lamented that the government was least concerned over the issue and urged it to take steps which would restore confidence in the people and help curb the trend.

 

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MOHSIN
May 28, 2012 07:16pm
it could not be just the economical but also psychological poverty , as many poor masses may have worse condition than who have committed it, but all they are still psychological contented in a condition where a normal man may easily turn to psychologically depressed.
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