Pakistan, Sept. 6 -- The death of 14 newborn babies in a fire that broke out in the neonatal ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad is an immensely painful tragedy.

One cannot help but think about the mothers of these innocent little souls. How carefully must they have carried these babies in their wombs for nine long months? How anxiously must each mother have spent those months, praying that her child would arrive safely into the world? Little did these unfortunate mothers know that, only days after entering this world, their tiny flowers would be consumed by fire and smoke and return from where they had come.

Amid the flood of information surrounding the tragedy, one particularly heartbreaking account ...