Editing Sex-selective abortion (section)

===Pakistan===
{{Main|Female infanticide in Pakistan}}
[[File:Pakistan (orthographic projection).svg|thumb|[[Pakistan]] has a tradition of sex selection. Similarly with India, the tradition of [[dowry]] plays role.]]
For Pakistan, the United Nations Population Fund, in its 2012 report estimates the Pakistan birth sex ratio to be 110. In the urban regions, particularly its densely populated region of Punjab, report a sex ratio above 112 (less than 900 females per 1000 males).<ref>N Purewal (2010), "Son Preference, Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia", Oxford International Publishers / Berg, {{ISBN|978-1-84520-468-6}}, page 38</ref> Hudson and Den Boer estimate the resulting deficit to be about 6 million missing girls in Pakistan than what would normally be expected.<ref name=hudsonboer /> 

In 2017, two Pakistani organisations discovered large cases of infanticide in Pakistani cities. This was led by the Edhi Foundation and Chhipa Welfare Foundation. The infanticide victims were almost all were female infants. The reason given by the local authorities were poverty and local customs, where boys are preferred to girls. However, the large discovery in Karachi shows that many of the female infants were killed because of the local clerics, who ordered that out-of-wedlock babies should be disregarded. This is due to the fact that fornication is a major sin in Islam, although it is also ''[[haram]]'' (forbidden) to kill an innocent soul, which babies and children fall under.<ref name="thenews.com.pk">{{cite web | url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/309162-karachi-becoming-a-killing-field-for-newborn-girls | title=Karachi becoming a killing field for newborn girls | access-date=May 8, 2020 | archive-date=February 17, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217224111/https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/309162-karachi-becoming-a-killing-field-for-newborn-girls | url-status=live }}</ref> In fact, [[Muhammad]] explicitly banned the killing of female infants, as it was a custom in [[Pre-Islamic Arabia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tasgheer |first1=Aqsa |last2=Ishfaq |first2=Muhammad |date=October 17, 2021 |title=Female Infanticide in Pre-Islamic Arab Society: A Quranic and Historical Perspective |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361885912 |journal=Al-Qawarir |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=6 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|From January 2017 to April 2018, Edhi Center foundation and Chhipa Welfare organisation have found 345 such new born babies dumped in garbage in Karachi only and 99 percent of them were girls.

"We have been dealing with such cases for years and there are a few such incidents which shook our souls as much. It left us wondering whether our society is heading back to primitive age," Anwar Kazmi, a senior manager in Edhi Foundation Karachi, told The News.

Edhi Foundation has found 355 such dead infants from the garbage dumps across the country in 2017; 99 percent of them were identified girls. And Karachi has topped in this notorious ranking with 180 cases in 2017. As many as 72 dead girls have been buried in the first four months of this year by Edhi Foundation alone in the metropolitan city. The given data is just tip of the iceberg as Edhi foundation maintains the data of those cities where it provides services.<ref name="thenews.com.pk"/>}}