{
  "id": 5280503,
  "title": "Act for Nutrition conference: BISP official says policies, legislation remain ‘only on paper’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/act-for-nutrition-conference-bisp-official-says-policies-legislation",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-03T08:05:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2027116/act-for-nutrition-conference-bisp-official-says-policies-legislation-remain-only-on-paper"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On the second day of the 'Act For Nutrition: The Emergency We Can No Longer Ignore' international conference in Islamabad, a Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) official highlighted that policies and legislation related to malnutrition remained merely \"on paper\". Deputy Director of Nutrition Tehmina Gulzar emphasized the need for policies to be integrated into practice, noting that various sectors were working on addressing malnutrition, but these efforts were fragmented.",
  "summary": "The second day of a two-day international conference, ‘Act For Nutrition: The Emergency We Can No Longer Ignore’, is being held at Islamabad’s Serena Hotel. The conference aims to address Pakistan’s persistent nutrition and stunting crisis. On the first day , experts at the conference warned that more than four in 10 children under five were stunted and malnutrition was costing Pakistan close to…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dawn",
        "title": "2nd day of Act for Nutrition conference begins",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/2nd-day-of-act-for-nutrition-conference-begins",
        "published": "2026-09-03T05:24:37.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}