March of ‘terror’: Pakistan grapples with deadly attacks on China interests
Al JazeeraAPR 2024
Violence, particularly the terrorism-fuelled kind, has profoundly impacted Pakistan's children over the decades. Besides causing countless deaths, it has displaced them and forced them into unstable, dangerous living conditions. Attendant malaises like health risks, malnutrition, and psychological trauma have only worsened their plight. Violence has robbed Pakistan's children of lives and a normal childhood.
Thursday's tragic killing of two innocent children in Pakistan comes amid a surge in violent attacks in the country, fuelled by intensified political friction. Worsening dynamics between the military and the country's various militant groups are causing widespread societal instability. And as usual, the victims mostly are the innocent, including children and women.
There is a 50% chance that the global mortality rate for children under the age of 5 in 2025 will be 3.508%, according to the Metaculus prediction community.