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Abstract

Figures of suicide and parasuicide for 1974-1978 were collected from official sources (police) and compared with a similar study carried out fifteen years back. The temporal constancy of under-reporting in Karachi was proved when changing situations in developing countries are taken into consideration. The differences in the pattern of suicide and parasuicide found were: the suicide rates have fallen considerably and the parasuicide rates remained more or less same; more younger people under the age of 20 and more females are successfully committing suicide than before, and more are using insecticide and tablets as compared to late fifties and early sixties. Domestic troubles remain the most common reason for suicide and parasuicide in both the studies