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Development of mental health services in Pakistan

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Malik Hussain Mubbashar
Malik Hussain Mubbashar*
Affiliation:
Sheikh Sayed Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
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Pakistan is a country comprising four provinces: Punjab, Sind, Northwest Frontier Province and Baluchistan, in addition to the federally administered tribal areas and the federal capital territory of Islamabad. It is bordered by China, Afghanistan, Iran and India. It has a population of 152 million (excluding an estimated 3–4 million Afghan and Bangladeshi immigrants) and an area of 796 095 km2.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2003 , pp. 11 - 13
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