The price of a life: Compensating victims of terrorism

March 07, 2016 15:44

The old village of Malik Raza Khan looks haunted. In this rural part of Charsadda district, poverty and neglect have eroded the mortar between the bricks of crumbling houses; the elements eating into the walls.

The most visible sign of life here are green fields of bitter gourd, plump red tomatoes, okra and eggplant.There is another abundant harvest here: of death, of lives brutally cut short by terrorism.

It has numbed its victims into silence, sapping whole families of their life force, turning them into mere shadows of their former selves.

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