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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered the federal and provincial governments to discontinue the use of words like ‘disabled’, ‘physically handicapped’ and ‘mentally retarded’ in official correspondence as these words offend the dignity of physically-challenged people. Instead, such persons should be identified as ‘persons with disabilities’ or ‘persons with different abilities’, observed the Supreme Court in a judgement authored by …

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