The numbers tell of the worsening situation in Pakistan against newly born babies. In 2010 alone, 1,200 infants died of infanticide or abandoned to die for unknown reasons. Observers believe that this rise resulted from Islamic laws that condemn children born outside marriage and criminalize adultery. It reflects a 20 percent rise from the 2009 count of 999 cases, and 34.8 percent from 2008, which recorded 890 infant deaths.
Most children found had less than a week old.
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An infant (age 6) was discovered with burnt body and strangled to death. Another child had been stoned to death on orders of an extremist imam, and found on the steps of a mosque.
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