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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Sarah Shamim

Choosing to be child-free in an ‘apocalyptic’ South Asia

Children react as they ride on a swing during Eid al-Adha celebratons in Karachi, Pakistan [File: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]

Zuha Siddiqui is currently designing her new house in Karachi, creating a blueprint for her future life in Pakistan’s largest metropolis.

Her parents will live in the downstairs portion of this house, “because they’re growing old, and they don’t want to climb stairs”, she says.

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