ISLAMABAD, Nov 22: Save the Children Thursday clarified that out of 423, 000 deaths of children, in a year, in Pakistan, 35 per cent were due to malnutrition.

Save the Children was responding to the news of an exhibition of photographs held in the National Art Gallery Wednesday titled ‘Child health and nutrition’ in the metropolitan section of the Dawn newspaper.

Save the Children said that in Pakistan, 423,000 children, under the age of five, died every year. Out of these, 348,000 died within their first year of birth.

The exhibition was held under the international NGO programme Every One Campaign.

Save the Children in their clarification said that according to the National Nutrition Survey 2011, 35 per cent of these deaths were a result of malnutrition.