Pakistan, Feb. 3 -- "The Balochistan government has not allocated funds for the malnutrition programme and it completely depends on the donors' funding since 2014," lamented the provincial head of the Nutrition Directorate, his statement encapsulating a profound failure in governance, particularly in a province where malnutrition continues to devastate the lives of our most vulnerable populations.

Statistics paint a grim picture: nearly one-third of all children in Pakistan are underweight, 44 per cent are stunted, 15 per cent are wasted, and about 50 per cent suffer from anaemia. These rates have hardly changed in the last two decades. The consequences of these conditions are dire and often irreversible, impacting both the physical and ...