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Talking about mental health July 28, 2021 Following the 18th Amendment to the constitution of Pakistan, health became a provincial subject. Thereafter, the provincial assemblies adopted – and in certain cases updated – the former laws that loosely captured the subject of mental health such as the Mental Health Ordinance, 2001 and the Disabled Person (Employment and Rehabilitation) Ordinance, 1981. Sindh and Punjab have a rudimentary legislative framework in place to address mental health while all four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory have enacted laws that govern the rights of disabled persons. These include: the Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Punjab), Sindh Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2018, Balochistan Persons with Disabilities Act, 2017, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation) (Amendment) Act, 2012, and the ICT Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2020. While the precise d

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