The alarming surge of suicide cases in Chitral demands far more than perfunctory concern. Between 2015 and 2019, as many as 83 lives were lost, nearly half of them women. In the past five years alone, Lower Chitral has recorded 63 suicides, with female victims once again disproportionately represented. These are chilling reminders of a community in distress, and of a state that has yet to respond with urgency.

It is all the more troubling that the reasons behind this pattern remain........

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