Meet The Man That Has 20 Kids With Just 2 Wife And Still Counting

 

 Islam Mohmand and his two wives have so many children that he sometimes gets confused and needs help to remember all of their names. They have 20 kids in all but would be happy to bring even more into their small family house. But population experts in Pakistan, where the Mohmands are from, say families like theirs are fueling a population explosion that is fast becoming the country's most dangerous crisis. 

Pakistan's population has grown from around 33 million in 1947 to more than 180 million people in 2012, making it the sixth most populous country in the world. It is also one of the world's poorest, with 60% of Pakistanis living on just $2 per day, according to the World Bank. The majority of the population -- 70%, according to the United Nations -- is largely illiterate and resides in rural areas lacking the most basic services. 

With only one in five Pakistani women using modern birth control, the United Nations estimates Pakistan will become the world's third most populous country after China and India by 2050. "I consider the population problem the biggest problem of this country," said Akbar Laghari of Pakistan's Department of Population Welfare.

 "The future is bleak because of this." He admitted the government has to share the blame as not enough is done to offer effective family planning services and teach people about birth control. I think it's an ignored problem. We're brushing it away and I'm afraid we're losing time. 

Zeba Sathar, Population Council "We don't have that much mobility, we don't have the resources," he said. "Because of the political upheavals in the country and frequent changes in government ... they [the government] are not giving it top priority."

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A bus explosion killed 19 people and injured dozens

A bus explosion killed 19 people and injured dozens in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, authorities said. Fatalities included eight women and a child. At least 25 people were wounded in the explosion near Peshawar, senior police official Shafi Ullah said. 

 The bus was taking government employees home after work when the blast hit, Ullah told CNN. He said that most of the fatalities were the government employees and that more than 50 employees were on the bus. 

 It was unclear whether passers-by were among the victims. Shafqat Malik, the head of bomb disposal squad in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told CNN the explosive was planted underneath the bus. Peshawar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 

 "Militants want to show their existence by such terrorist activities," said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's information minister. "This was a terrorist act by militants to create a tyranny."

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British Red Cross doctor found beheaded by militants in Pakistan after being kidnapped

The beheaded, bullet-ridden body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found dumped by the roadside today in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said.

 Muslim convert Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was kidnapped by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work. ‘The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act,’ ICRC Director-General Yves Daccord said in a statement. 

‘All of us at the ICRC and at the British Red Cross share the grief and outrage of Khalil's family and friends.’

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Plane crash in Pakistan kills 127 people

A Pakistani passenger plane today Friday April 20th crashed near the Chaklala airbase as it was trying to land in thunderstorm, killing all 127 people on-board. 

 The Boeing 737 belonging to Bhoja Airlines was traveling from Karachi to Islamabad when it crashed due to very bad weather. A Pakistani aviation official said lightening might have caused the plane to catch fire and crash. 

A violent rain, wind and thunder storm was lashing the capital at the time of the crash, which occurred about 6:40 p.m. local time. RIP to the victims!

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Doctors remove four extra limbs from baby born with six legs(PHOTO)

I put up the story about this miracle baby born with six limbs a few days ago. Doctors at the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi Pakistan successfully operated on him and removed the four extra limbs, which was the result of a genetic disease.

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Baby boy with six legs born in Pakistan(PHOTO)

The beautiful boy was was born a week ago in Pakistan and has a rare genetic condition which would affect only one in ten million or more babies. Doctors are battling to save his life.

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Avalanche buries 124 Pakistani soldiers and 11 civilians

An avalanche engulfed a Pakistani army battalion headquarters near the Indian border on Saturday, burying 124 soldiers and 11 civilians, with no sign of survivors 17 hours later, the military said. The snow left by the avalanche was up to 80 feet deep over an area a kilometre wide, state television quoted army spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas as saying.

 The victims were trapped in one of the most unforgiving environments on earth, at an altitude of 15,000 feet near the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range. The area is also one of the world's most militarily tense frontiers, where the Indian and Pakistani armies have confronted each other over disputed territory for decades. Eleven civilian employees of the military were buried under the snow along with the soldiers of the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion, the military said in a statement.

 "This battalion headquarter (has been) situated at same place for the last 20 years and no incident of this nature has happened," it said. TAKEN BY SURPRISE Helicopters were deployed in a rescue operation. Troops used sniffer dogs to comb the area, said the military. Heavy engineering equipment was flown to the site from the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad. 

"This happened at six o'clock. These avalanches usually happen at night. It took them by surprise," Abbas told Reuters. The army listed the names of the missing soldiers and civilians on its public relations website. The military has ruled Pakistan for more than half of its 64 year history, setting foreign and security policy even when civilian governments are in power, as is the case now. 

Siachen is in the northern part of the Himalayan region of Kashmir. The no-man's-land of Siachen is 20,000 feet above sea level. Military experts say the inhospitable climate and avalanche-prone terrain have claimed more lives than gunfire. Muslim-majority Kashmir is at the heart of hostility between India and Pakistan and was the cause of two of their three full-scale wars.` 

Siachen has been described as the world's highest battlefield. Indian and Pakistani troops have fought at altitudes of over 20,000 feet in temperatures of minus 60 degrees Celsius. Between 10,000 and 20,000 Indian and Pakistani troops are stationed in the mountains above the glacier. A tentative peace process is under way, with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari scheduled to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday, the first visit to India by a Pakistani head of state since 2005.

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Court jails 5 bin Laden relatives

A Pakistani judge on Monday sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters to a month and a half in prison for illegally living in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said. The judge ordered that after their prison term, the five be deported back to their countries of citizenship, said Amir Khalil, the lawyer. 

The three widows -- identified by U.S. and Pakistani officials as Amal Ahmed Abdul Fateh, Khairiah Sabar and Siham Sabar -- have been in Pakistani custody since U.S. Navy SEALs raided bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad and killed the al Qaeda leader in May 2011. The daughters are aged 17 and 21, Khalil said. 

Pakistani authorities started legal proceedings against the widows, alleging forgery and illegal entrance into Pakistan. They will serve their 45 day sentence in the Islamabad residence where the trial took place, the Khalil said. A source familiar with the widows' case said last week that the Yemeni government has expressed readiness to let Fateh, bin Laden's youngest widow, return home. 

Saudi Arabia, where the other two women are from, has been more resistant. The judge also fined the defendants 10,000 rupees, or about $110, each, Khalil said, adding that the fines had already been paid in court. Bin Laden spent years on the run in Pakistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, moving from one safe house to another and fathering four children -- at least one of whom was born in a government hospital, Fateh has told Pakistani investigators. 

A deposition taken from Fateh gives the clearest picture yet of bin Laden's life while international forces hunted him. "While we may never be able to corroborate every detail, generally speaking, bin Laden's wife's account seems plausible, and it confirms some previously held theories on where the al-Qaeda leader was hiding over the years," a U.S. official said about the widow's account. In the January 19 police report, Fateh said she had always wanted to marry a mujahed, or holy warrior. 

When word of plans for her arranged marriage to bin Laden came in 2000, she flew to Pakistan, crossed the Afghanistan border at Quetta and went to Kandahar. She said she did not recall exactly when, but she was married before the 2001 attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. She lived with bin Laden and his two other wives until the attacks. The family "scattered" after that, she told police. 

She said she returned to the southern port city of Karachi with her eldest daughter, Safia, and stayed in an apartment for eight or nine months. She said that "all the things were arranged by some Pakistani family and Saad," bin Laden's eldest son. They moved six or seven times in Karachi before she reunited with bin Laden in the border city of Peshawar. They moved to the Swat Valley, living in two houses over an eight- or nine-month period. Next, they shifted to Haripur, also in northern Pakistan. Fateh's daughter Aasia was born there in 2003 and son Ibrahim the next year. 

Fateh said she stayed in a hospital on both occasions. They settled in Abbottabad in 2005 and stayed there for six years before bin Laden was killed. Fateh had two more children in Abbottabad -- daughter Zainab was born in 2006 and son Hussain in 2008. Fateh said two families, whom she called the Ibrahim and Abrar families, stayed with them while they were in Swat, Haripur and Abbottabad, and "everything was arranged by them." She said some members of those two families were killed in the raid, as was bin Laden's 20-year-old son, Khalid. She told police she never applied for a visa during her stay in Pakistan.

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