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Children smile in slums on the outskirts of Karachi, where soaring food prices mean about 77 million people of Pakistan's 160 million population are food insecure, according to the U.N. World Food Programme.
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Children smile in slums on the outskirts of Karachi, where soaring food prices mean about 77 million people of Pakistan's 160 million population are food insecure, according to the U.N. World Food Programme.
REUTERS/Athar Hussain
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