[Karachi, September 16. Image via Getty]

A poverty-stricken Pakistani woman and her child wait in an impoverished locality of Khori Garden for free distribution of food items at the same place where a tragic stampede occured on September 14, in Karachi on September 16, 2009. Pakistan has opened a judicial inquiry into a stampede that killed 20 women and children on September 14 queuing for food handouts in an impoverished district of financial capital Karachi. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

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