16-year-old Girl dies by Suicide

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KARACHI: A teenage girl took her own life in her Orangi Town home on Feb 13, police said.

Pakistan Bazaar SHO Imam Bux Lashari said that 16-year-old Neha had lost her interest in studying. Her mother and brothers scolded her for not going to school.

In the early morning, she was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room.

She was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared her dead.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2026.

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