- Condition of the mother and children is out of danger.
- Father of the children Inamullah has expressed happiness over birth of quadruplets.
- In South Asia, a son is often believed to offer better financial security to parents than daughters.
BANNU: A woman on Tuesday gave birth to quadruplets at Women and Children Teaching Hospital in Bannu.
Condition of the mother and children is out of danger. The lady doctor said the newborns were healthy and mother’s condition was out of danger.
Father of the children Inamullah has expressed happiness over birth of quadruplets. “I am thankful to Allah (SWT) that He has blessed me with four children at a time,” he said.
A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor had said on February 10.
Read more: Woman had nail hammered into head to ‘guarantee’ baby boy
Exploitative faith healers, whose practices are rooted in mystic Sufi lore, are common across Muslim-majority Pakistan despite the disapproval of some schools of Islam.
In South Asia, a son is often believed to offer better financial security to parents than daughters.
The woman had arrived at a hospital in Peshawar after trying to extract the nail herself with pliers, doctor Haider Khan had told AFP.
“She was fully conscious, but was in immense pain,” Khan, who removed the spike, had said.
The mother of three daughters had said she was pregnant with another girl, the had doctor added.
An X-ray had showed the five-centimetre (two-inch) nail had pierced the top of the woman’s forehead but missed her brain.
Khan had said a hammer or other heavy object was used to knock it in.
The woman had initially told hospital staff she had hammered the nail into her head herself on the advice of the faith healer, before later saying he had carried out the act.
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