Karachi's residents are no strangers to hardship. The city is constantly braced against an unending tide of civic failures - from crumbling infrastructure to prolonged outages of water, gas and electricity. But perhaps the cruelest of crises is now unfolding in its pharmacies: a deliberate, profit-driven shortage of essential medicines.

The very drugs that help keep patients alive are now vanishing from shelves, not due to supply chain disruption or........

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