More than 1,000 infants -- most of them girls -- were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.
The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan's main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.
The number of dead infants found last year -- 1,210 -- was up from 890 in 2008 and 999 in 2009, says the Edhi Foundation manager in Karachi, Anwar Kazmi.
And when the article says "most" are girls, for one charity that finds the bodies, "most" means 90%.
I don't know what kind of climate of hate you want to say breeds this sickness. But it is sick. And fatal for little girls.
Heck, it isn't exactly a walk in the park for those girls who live and grow to adulthood.
