Countless malnourished in Pakistan despite abundance of food
(WorldNews Pakistan)

A paramedic weighs a child at the Civil Hospital in Mithi.-AFP KARACHI: A frantic mother cradling her seven-month-old baby rushes to­­wards the special paediatric ward in a desolate town, the boy´s eyes are blank and he is smaller than most newborns. He is starving in a country that has no shortage of food, but which has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world and where malnutrition is rife. The infant weighs just 2.5 kilograms - the average for a healthy child of that age is almost three times that. His case is not unique for the doctors at the Mithi Civil Hospital in...