ARTE ReportagePakistan: Karachi's Forgotten 'Mad Women'

35 min

Available until 16/02/2026

05/03/2020

Nazish has been stuck inside the same four walls in Karachi for 12 years. She's in Asia's largest asylum, a place not just for mentally ill women, but a dumping ground for Karachi's unwanted, inconvenient women. And their numbers are growing: originally housing just 400 patients, 1700 women are now crammed inside.

Director

David Muntaner

Author

David Muntaner

Producer

Thierry Marro

Country

France

Year

2020

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