Locked inside: Grief and anger as Pakistan hospital fire kills 14 newborns

Islamabad, Pakistan — It was 6:30am on Wednesday when Arif Rana, 46, woke to a phone call. He had been asleep on the lawn outside the maternity unit of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad’s largest public-sector hospital.

“My sister gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, and she was admitted in the general ward of the hospital. The call came from her husb...