{
  "id": 1500861,
  "title": "Pakistan's Childhood Malnutrition Crisis Deepens As Nearly 40% Children Face Stunting Threat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/pakistans-childhood-malnutrition-crisis-deepens-as-nearly-40-children",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-17T14:25:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/pakistans-childhood-malnutrition-crisis-deepens-as-nearly-40-children-face-stunting-threat"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "New Delhi, Aug 17: Pakistan’s economic policy debate has long centred on inflation, public debt, taxation, exports and the energy crisis. But beneath these recurring challenges lies a deeper problem that could have lasting consequences for the country’s economic future -- widespread childhood malnutrition and the damage it causes to human capital, a report has said. Childhood malnutrition crisis…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}