Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub
Khan, Zohaib
Ghani, Abdullah
Raza, Agha Ali
Qazi, Zafar Ayyub
Sajjad, Wassay
Ali, Ayesha
Javaid, Asher
Sohail, Muhammad Abdullah
Azeemi, Abdul Hameed
Article History
Received: 20 June 2025
Accepted: 2 February 2026
First Online: 25 February 2026
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All authors meet Nature Portfolio authorship criteria, with no external collaborators. The study did not involve human participants or animal subjects, so institutional review board approval was not required. Throughout, we followed institutional research-integrity guidelines, the Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings, and inclusive citation practices to ensure that no groups are disadvantaged.