From: Adsm andym1997@yahoo.com   Crippling debt pushes some Pakistanis to suicide REBECCA CONWAY AND IMTIAZ SHAH ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Feb 15 2012 18:41 7 Comments and 13 Reactions Bashiran Bibi and her husband fought every day because money was too tight. Their hungry children's screams tormented her. She began begging in Pakistan's streets. But that didn't help. So the maid (25) decided there was only one way to deal with crushing poverty. She jumped in front of a speeding train with her two sons and daughter, all under the age of three. "Bashiran told me the night before that it would be better for everyone if they all died," said her mother-in-law, Barkat. Pakistanis react to widespread hardship in many ways. Some head abroad looking for jobs. Others are drawn to militant groups seeking to topple the state. In the 10 months to October of 2011, about 1 600 people decided that suicide was the only option, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. The previous year 2 399 people killed themselves and poverty was a significant factor but a precise breakup was not available, the commission said. Suicide linked to poverty is not unique to Pakistan. Since the mid-1990s, an estimated 150 000 small farmers have committed suicide in neighbouring India, mostly over debts, according to the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University. But Pakistan has nowhere near the economic power that India does, so tackling social ills could be more difficult here. Suicide figures Growing economic pressures could push the suicide figure even higher in the South Asian nation where over one in five people live below the international poverty line of $1 a day.     http://mg.co.za/article/2012-02-15-crippling-debt-pushes-some-pakistanis-to-suicide

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