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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The rise in incidents of street
crime in Karachi and other cities of Pakistan has been the subject of a
report released this week by a local NGO. What the report highlights is the
growing number of street children involved in this activity. This is cause
for alarm. There has been a significant rise in the number of street
children, particularly in Karachi says the report adding that the reasons for
children running away from their homes include domestic violence, sexual
abuse and corporal punishment at schools, especially madressahs.
This is an issue that has to be dealt in a proactive manner. It may be noted
that street children end up joining gangs which offer them protection in
return for working on the streets. The gangs force the children into prostitution
and crime. There has been a rise in child prostitution in the cities as a
consequence of this. Also, incidents
of petty crime have also risen as children are forced to beg, steal and
borrow to retain their gang membership. Many of the children also turn to
drugs and other substance abuse which only complicates the problem. -sccp Plight of street children worsens www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1443078/ At one time this article had been archived
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[scroll down] The report indicated that street
children are the victims of unplanned economic growth, war, poverty, domestic
violence and the violence at schools and madrassas,
he said. It was mentioned that
majority of street children are in the age of 13 to 18 years (79.03%)
followed by those in the age group of 9 to 12 years (15.22%) and up to 8
years old (5.71%). Most of them belong to Punjabi community followed by Urdu,
Pashto, Burmese and Bengalese. The research revealed that majority of street
children is either orphans or affectees of broken
families Majority of street children use
drugs as 92% of them admitted that they use various kinds of drugs however 8%
denied any use of drugs at any stage of their lives. About 75% of the
respondents admitted that they smoke cigarettes, 70% use charas,
66% inhale glue and I5% use heroine. After having drug a majority of 66%
respondents admitted experiencing violence. Depression is very common among
street children and, while talking about the high occurrence of physical,
emotional and sexual violence, 66% of the respondents admitted that they self-inflected
themselves while 26% denied and 8% didnt give any
response. About 85% cut with blades and knives while 15% burn themselves. Street Children and child abuse www.pww.org.pk/index.php?link=ComDetails&mod=CommonInfos&page=5&modid=47 While most child workers have
homes to return, the street children are completely alone and at the mercy of
their employers, and circumstances night and day. Their number of meals is
one to three daily, often getting leftover from the restaurants and
eating-places in the areas they hang around. Many are also found in the
vicinity of religious shrines where people donate food for the poor. ***
ARCHIVES *** A Video Playlist for Pakistan - There are an increasing number
of street children videos now available that constitute a supplementary
source of information for researchers, especially for those who may not have
experienced the reality of street children.
[Playlist developed by Brian Horne of almudo.com &
streetkidnews.blogsome.com] UNICEF - The Big Picture U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The provincial government of the Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - According to a foreign aid
organization, of the 18 million children between the ages of 5 and 9, only 42
percent were in school. Less than half of children who enrolled completed
more than five years of education. Out of every 100 children who enrolled,
only 6 completed grade 12. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [78] The Committee expresses its
concern at the increasing number of street children and the vulnerability of
these children to violence, torture, sexual abuse and exploitation, the lack
of a systematic and comprehensive strategy to address the situation and
protect these children, and the very poor registration of missing children by
the police. Male
prostitution, a hidden shame: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C01%5C13%5Cstory_13-1-2009_pg12_9
Despite the fact that the
phenomenon is increasing by the minute, no government body or NGO has
conducted a survey to find out exactly how many men are in this business. However, he said that there was a
need for the collection of the exact numbers of males in the prostitution
business as well as their customers to spread awareness about the diseases
that sprout from the phenomenon. “There are almost 30,000 street children in
the country, who are usually the victims of sexual abuse, as time progresses
these children are so used to being exploited that they decide to use the
exploitation to earn quick money,” he added. Male-prostitutes are without a
doubt spreading many diseases however, no one cares about it, as the issue
for most people is non-existent, Dharejo adds. Development:
Protecting Pakistan’s children – Punjab Child Helpline (1121) www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C12%5C09%5Cstory_9-12-2008_pg3_3
HIV/AIDS
increasing in country www.defence.pk/forums/members-club/16954-health-news.html
Most of the 15,000-20,000
estimated child sex workers present in Lahore live in areas near bus stands
and railway station. Male child prostitution is more common than any other
form of commercial sexual exploitation in Pakistan. Though the trend of selling organs
(kidney.) for cash does not seem to have caught hold in Lahore or was not
reported, quite a few children were aware of the fact that they could sell
their blood for money if the need arose. The limited blood screening
facilities make such practice extremely unsafe and can spread HIV/AIDS on a
rapid scale. Though not a single child admitted to resorting to this
practice, they had come to know about this through adult drug addicts. In Pakistan, the estimated
population aged below 18 years is 71 million, and 3.6 million children are
involved in child labour. About 1.2 million
children are on the streets in Pakistan’s large cities, working as beggars,
vendors or shoeshine boys. Incidents
of child abuse rarely reported www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\04\story_4-11-2008_pg12_11
“We have conducted a study on
violence against street children and the data we have collected is quite
shocking, and what is most appalling is that children studying at religious
seminaries also fall victim to sexual violence,” claimed Habib.
He added that it is common practice amongst parents, especially from the
lower strata of the society, prefer to send their children to Madressahs as compared to formal schooling systems. According to the study, 21 percent
of Madressah students have been sexually abused by
their teachers. Fifty-two percent of students were sexually harassed, 28
percent had complained of unpleasant touching and 20 percent complained of
forced sex, said Habib. Almost ninety percent of sexually
violent acts against children occur on the streets, seven percent of the
children denied any sexual abuse on the streets and three percent of these children
had no idea about any such happenings. Thirty-three percent of the children
who were sexually abused on the streets revealed that they were abused by
people in police departments, while 22 percent of them held workers of
political, social and religious parties responsible, claimed Habib. This is not the end of the
shocking list, as shopkeepers, strangers, gang leaders, private security
guards and drivers were also held responsible for sexual violence. Twenty
percent of the children reported that 20 percent of strangers, 12 percent of
shopkeepers, 11 percent of gang leaders, 14 percent of private security
guards and 22 percent drivers were among the perpetuators of sexual violence
against them. - sccp Child
abuse mushrooming as shops offering ‘services’ spring up www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=144233
Tauqeer went to school for a while but
soon developed a habit of running away from home. In the beginning, he
started selling tissue papers at Sea View and earned Rs100 to Rs120
daily. However, two years ago, one of
his friends, Naveed (not his real name) asked him
to visit Jahangir Park, near the Pedestrian Bridge,
(which does not exist now), “to earn more money.” According to Tauqeer,
the world of the Pedestrian Bridge “was altogether a different world.” This
was the meeting point for male child prostitutes and their clients. According to Tauqeer,
more than 300 children are engaged in this area alone. “There are two
categories of children involved. A majority are street children who earn their livelihood through this mean. Then
there are kids who belong to poor families and visit the bridge to earn some
extra money,” he says. -
sccp Two
million youth in Karachi drug addicts www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/26-Oct-2008/Two-million-youth-in-Karachi-drug-addicts
In PAKISTAN: Return of
"lost" boys highlights the plight of street children www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80510 Asif, 16, was among 53
"lost" boys, aged between eight and 16, who boarded the bus on the
morning of 16 August to return to his parents' house. Asif remembers he had four siblings
and cannot wait to go home. "I think I will be able to recognise them once I see them," he says. But he was
just nine when he got lost, in a market, and eventually found himself in
Karachi. NUMBERS RISING - Social workers say Pakistan has
a large population of runaway or lost kids, estimating their number at more
than 70,000. Navaid Hasan
Khan of Azad Foundation, an organisation
working with street children, estimates there are between 13,000 and 15,000
in Karachi alone and the number is increasing. The UN Children's Fund,
UNICEF, estimates there are 10,000 in Karachi. Many of the parents who took back
the children "were ecstatic to see them, but they told us they will send
them back to us as it means one less mouth to feed", he said. 'Rat
people' forced to beg on Pakistan's streets afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOmE7u7DlUpw1GwT37ut9uc1xf7A "Some of these children, the
handicapped ones especially, are accompanied by relatives," he told AFP.
"But begging gangs also look for poor parents who will sell them because
they are a burden to feed and shelter."
Sohail said his department had busted more
than 30 gangs across the province involved in exploiting street children, some of which had broken the limbs of children
so that they would earn more as beggars. - htsc Deadly
‘token’ heroin emerges as Karachi’s drug of choice Over the past four months,
newly-introduced cheap, substandard heroin has proved to be fatal to child
drug addicts on the streets. The new brand of heroin, also known among the
children as “token” or “Sanghara,” is widely
available throughout the city at Rs12 per sachet. Children who previously used the well-known
glue Samad Bond are the biggest “token” addicts.
They can no longer afford Samad Bond. A pack that cost
Rs75 in 2000 is now being traded at Rs170.
“What other choice have I got?” says Tufail,
a child on the streets who switched to token after the price of Samad Bond went up.
Token is the cheapest option available. It is also one of the most
lethal. According to a spokesman of the Edhi Foundation, children living on the streets who are
also drug addicts die before reaching the age of 23. Over the past six
months, he said, 145 bodies of heroin addicts had been picked up off the
streets. Forty percent were children. City
faces alarming rise in addicts, juvenile beggars Owing to the rampant unemployment
of their parents due to off-fishing season, a number of fishermen’s children
have started involving in begging and drug trafficking and this trend has
resulted in a sharp rise in the number street children making their
percentage up to 40 % in the metropolitan. PAKISTAN:
1.2 Million Street Children Abandoned and Exploited An estimated 1.2 million children
are on the streets of Pakistan's major cities and urban centres,
constituting the country's largest and most ostracised
social group. These include 'Runaway' children who live or work on the
street, as well as the minority that return to their families at the end of
the day with their meagre earnings. "World Vision is gravely
concerned with their growing numbers. Children are turningto
the streets amidst increasing poverty, unemployment, swelling family size and
social disintegration seen in abuse in schools, as well as domestic violence,
neglect and family breakdown," said World Vision Country Director, Sigurd Hanson. "Street wise" as early
as four, these children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or industrial
waste sites or take on menial jobs as cart pushers or dish washers, working
12-15 hours a day to earn around 75 rupees or US.25- enough to buy a meal if
they are fortunate. Most survive by prostituting themselves, stealing or
smuggling, making them vulnerable to contracting sexually transmitted
infections, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Jaundice and liver or kidney disorders. A
large proportion sniffs cheap, readily available solvents to starve off
hunger, loneliness and fear. Street Children and child abuse www.pww.org.pk/index.php?link=ComDetails&mod=CommonInfos&page=5&modid=47 While most child workers have
homes to return, the street children are completely alone and at the mercy of
their employers, and circumstances night and day. Their number of meals is
one to three daily, often getting leftover from the restaurants and
eating-places in the areas they hang around. Many are also found in the
vicinity of religious shrines where people donate food for the poor. Seminar
on corporal punishment: 35,000 school students drop out every year Thirty-five thousand students drop
out of high school every year in the country due to corporal punishment in
schools and homes, said Qindeel Shujaat,
Executive Director, Society for Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC), in
a seminar “Media Consultation on Child Rights and Protection Issues” on
Wednesday. Shujaat said corporal punishment in
schools and homes, a culturally accepted form of child abuse, had resulted in
high dropout rate from schools and ever-growing number of runaway children on
the streets. Shujaat
said Plight of street children worsens www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1443078/ At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[scroll down] The report indicated that street children
are the victims of unplanned economic growth, war, poverty, domestic violence
and the violence at schools and madrassas, he
said. It was mentioned that majority
of street children are in the age of 13 to 18 years (79.03%) followed by
those in the age group of 9 to 12 years (15.22%) and up to 8 years old
(5.71%). Most of them belong to Punjabi community followed by Urdu, Pashto,
Burmese and Bengalese. The research revealed that majority of street children
is either orphans or affectees of broken families Majority of street children use
drugs as 92% of them admitted that they use various kinds of drugs however 8%
denied any use of drugs at any stage of their lives. About 75% of the
respondents admitted that they smoke cigarettes, 70% use charas,
66% inhale glue and I5% use heroine. After having drug a majority of 66%
respondents admitted experiencing violence. Depression is very common among
street children and, while talking about the high occurrence of physical,
emotional and sexual violence, 66% of the respondents admitted that they
self-inflected themselves while 26% denied and 8% didnt
give any response. About 85% cut with blades and knives while 15% burn
themselves. 25,000 street
children vulnerable to diseases They urged the government to
create awareness on HIV and Aids and other sex related diseases to save
street children. Speakers said more
than 25,000 children were living on streets in the city. They said there were
some 70,000 children living on the streets in the country. An estimated 7,000
children live on the streets in Lahore, 10,000 in Faisalabad, 2,500 in Quetta, 3,000 in Rawalpindi and
5,000 in Peshawar. Nazra
Jahan of Sparc said
street children were one of the most vulnerable groups for all forms of
exploitation. They were at high risk of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV
and AIDS because of their early exposure to both heterosexual and homosexual
practices. The rise in incidents of street
crime in Karachi and other cities of Pakistan has been the subject of a
report released this week by a local NGO. What the report highlights is the
growing number of street children involved in this activity. This is cause
for alarm. There has been a significant rise in the number of street
children, particularly in Karachi says the report adding that the reasons for
children running away from their homes include domestic violence, sexual abuse
and corporal punishment at schools, especially madressahs.
This is an issue that has to be dealt in a proactive manner. It may be noted
that street children end up joining gangs which offer them protection in
return for working on the streets. The gangs force the children into
prostitution and crime. There has been a rise in child prostitution in the
cities as a consequence of this. Also,
incidents of petty crime have also risen as children are forced to beg, steal
and borrow to retain their gang membership. Many of the children also turn to
drugs and other substance abuse which only complicates the problem. -sccp Children
on an empty stomach on empty streets At a time when all the commerce in
Karachi is facing a shutdown and there is an acute shortage of basic
necessities in the city like food and fuel, no one is finding the going
tougher than the street-children of Karachi.
“I have not had a single bite to eat since yesterday morning as I was
unable to find anything,” said nineteen-year-old Sajid,
whose sustenance comes from the charity given at the shrines and different
hotels of Karachi. 9,000 sexually-abused street-children in City www.thepost.com.pk/Arc_CityNews.aspx?dtlid=129066&catid=3&date=11/17/2007&fcatid=14 UNICEF Programme
Officer Shamshad Qureshi
announced the results of a UNICEF survey that there are 10, 000 street
children in School with no
buildings gives hope Tucked away in a quiet corner in
the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi is a school that
is creating an astonishing change in the lives of the city's street children. City
centres thronged by street children Children at Pirwadahi
and Faizabad are living in unhygienic and squalid
conditions. They live in under-construction buildings, hotel basements and
verandas of bus stands. Majority of such children has come to the city with
expectations to fend for themselves or their families through various
occupations but after arriving here, they discovered that streets were not
paved with gold. Saiqa Ashraf,
a psychologist working on child sexual abuse, said these children become
criminals, terrorists, revolutionaries, drug addicts and abusers. “They are
starving and ignorant, destined to become thieves or victims of child sexual
abuse. The girls become prostitutes but there is also male prostitution. The
boys are uncontrollably violent and have lost the ability to feel emotions
such as love. For the most part they are amoral,” she commented. Curbing
beggary among children: CDGR to open seven child protection centres The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) with the help of the Punjab government
will set up seven protection centres for street
children below the age of 14, City District Nazim
Raja Javed Ikhlas told
Daily Times on Monday. He said the
RCDG had rented seven houses in Morgha and Kotha Kalan for opening the
child protection centres, which would soon be
inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. An army of
beggars has swarmed the length of Rawalpindi city
owing to the government’s failure to launch a crackdown on them or provide
them with alternative means of livelihood. The beggars throng shopping centres, streets, roads, restaurants and food outlets,
with their number swelling day by day. Begging women, children and disabled
men and women of all ages can be seen pestering motorists and pedestrians at
intersections, outside mosques and markets from early morning till late at
night. Shelter
for street children arranged streetkidnews.blogsome.com/2007/08/26/shelter-for-street-children-arranged/ www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=69865 A local NGO Sehar
foundation has arranged temporary shelters for the protection of street
children against torrential rains at different marriage halls in The management of these halls not
only agreed that their spaces be used for this purpose but also took upon the
responsibility to arrange meals for these children. Pakistan
has highest infant mortality rate in South Asia: SPARC The report gave a dark picture of
the Pakistani children’s condition. About 6.463 million children did not go
to school, which was the second largest number of such children in a country,
it said. In Karachi alone the number of street children was 25,000 and almost
four children were sexually molested daily. Pahchaan planning drop-in centre for street kids Dr Naeem
Zafar, president of Pehchaan,
said the NGO was providing several services including food and shelter, skill
building courses, hygiene courses, rest and recreation, psycho-social counselling, detoxification and legal protection. Also,
the organisation was educating 200 street and working children in the city. Police
encouraged to cooperate with street children streetkidnews.blogsome.com/2007/03/03/police-encouraged-to-cooperate-with-street-children/ www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=45334 A situation analysis of Karachi
conducted by The Azad Foundation further revealed
the criminal record of street children. More than half of them had a criminal
record. On average, approximately 3,500 street children have remained in
police custody for 2-7 days. Data also showed that more than 3,000 were
charged of theft, 3200 were arrested for drug addiction, and more than 2,000
claimed to be arrested without any reason. Horrific fate awaits children spurned by society www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=43990 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Consequently, an increasing trend
in sex exploitation was also witnessed over the years. As disclosed by the
street children near Bahadurabad and Allahwala Chowrangi, they
continue to be harassed and sexually abused at the hands of passers-by. Due
to this fear, these children prefer spending most of their time at drop-in centres that are operational during the day. “We feel
more scared at night because that is when truck drivers and policemen harass
us, but this centre is helpful because they teach us self-defence
techniques,” says 13-year-old Umair Ali who has
been living on the street for four years after he ran away from home because
his family pressurised him to get a job. Most of the children, spotted in Saddar, Karimabad, Tariq Road, Kala Pul and parts of Clifton, when refused job opportunities,
resort to pick-pocketing or sell sex for their day-to-day survival. The money
earned is then spent on addictives like cigarettes, drugs and inhalants,
mostly glues such as ‘Samad Bond’. “There are a lot
of small hotels and restaurants that offer us food so that is never an issue
for us. We don’t earn to make a living. The streets are where we spend our
lives. It’s the drugs we need money for,” adds Umair,
who further revealed that he was addicted to glue sniffing, a habit he is
unwilling to give up. -
htsccp Findings show dismal state of children in country www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\19\story_19-2-2007_pg11_1 www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Feb07/19/14.htm Child rights groups have estimated
that over 50,000 children live on the streets of Many street children are also
addicted to drugs and have been sexually assaulted. It has been reported that
56 percent of street children run away from their homes due to domestic
violence, 22 percent because of hostile behaviour
of their parents and 12 percent due to their parents’ drug addiction. Parents
renting children out to gangs: Report Referring to such reports, he said
as early as four, these children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or
industrial waste sites and took on menial jobs as cart-pushers or dishwashers
working 12-15 hours a day to earn around Rs75 — enough to buy a meal. A report compiled by the Society
for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc)
said most children survive by prostituting themselves and stealing, making
them vulnerable to contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as
HIV/Aids. “They are also at high risk
from health problems such as tuberculosis, jaundice and kidney disorders.” The report suggests that 83 per
cent of street children were sniffing glue between the ages of eight to
nineteen. Some 54 per cent left home at age 10-12 while 45 per cent children
living on the streets are involved in crimes and 49 per cent are at high risk
of HIV/Aids. Pakistan street
kids plagued by glue sniffing The Pakistan Medical Association says
substance abuse among street children has reached alarming levels. "If more is not done soon, Pakistan is
heading for a street children hooked on glue crisis on the scale of other
countries like Morocco and Brazil," said Qaiser
Sajjad, the association's general-secretary. There
are about 14,000 street children in Karachi and most are sniffing glue, said Aksa Zainab, a social worker
who helps street kids at a drop-in centre operated by the Azad
Foundation in cooperation with UNICEF. Vulnerable
and helpless on the street streetkidnews.blogsome.com/2006/12/19/vulnerable-and-helpless-on-the-street/ www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=36197 A majority of them are drug
addicts. The most popular and affordable of the durg
is a type of glue -- used mostly in home repair and maintenance -- which
these children inhale by putting it on a piece of cloth. One can see young
boys sniffing this glue openly on the streets and pavements that according to
one user, "tingles nose and make one slightly drowsy." The use of
other drugs including hashish, and even heroin are also rampant among many of
these streets children. Organised gangs of criminals -- peddling
drugs or operating begging rackets -- take these children under their wings
and use them in criminal activities. Many children also resort on their own
to begging and petty crimes, raising enough money to buy themselves food and favourite drug. Govt, masses urged to rehabilitate street urchins www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=34580 Recalling an incident where a
child was abducted from Data Darbar and admitted to
a hospital, he said that one kidney of the child was removed in an operation.
The matter was being probed by the authorities concerned, but the society at
large was responsible for such incident. Lahore’s
street children find alternatives at UNICEF-supported centre Rehan, who may be “nearly 18,” does not
have the physique of a teenage boy. That’s because Rehan
is actually Rehana, a girl disguised as a boy to
survive on the streets of Heera Mandi,
Lahore’s red-light district. “Can you
imagine what would happen to me if I dressed as a girl?” she asks. Street
children in Pakistan at risk of contracting Aids The phenomenon of street children
in Pakistan poses a complex social challenge, and these children are at the
high risk of a myriad of physical and psychological problems as a result of
both the circumstances that preceded their homelessness and the direct
consequence of life on the streets. Pakistan's 1.2 million street children abandoned & exploited “Street wise” as early as four,
these children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or industrial waste
sites or take on menial jobs as cart pushers or dish washers, working 12-15
hours a day to earn around 75 rupees or US$1.25- enough to buy a meal if they
are fortunate. Most survive by
prostituting themselves, stealing or smuggling, making them vulnerable to
contracting sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Jaundice
and liver or kidney disorders. A large
proportion sniffs cheap, readily available solvents to starve off hunger,
loneliness and fear. Number of street
children on the rise Living on the rough and tumble
streets of Karachi
Has Largest Number Of Pakistan's Street Children Poverty and domestic physical and
mental abuse "are the key factors that lead children to begin a life on
the streets. Be it economic or social
factors, street children leave their homes for an uncertain future. Many find work collecting waste paper,
cleaning cars, working as shoe shiners or in small eateries. Some fall back on begging, pick-pocketing
or offer themselves to sex perverts, while others
end up as drug addicts. They use
inhalants that are cheap and easily available but cause irreversible brain
damage. Thirteen year-old Zahid spends his nights at Cantt
railway station in Thousands of Pakistani Street Children Addicted to Glue They may not have access to drugs
like heroin and marijuana, but that doesn't stop thousands of street children
in Information about Street Children - www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/Pakistan%20Child.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Street Children and Juvenile Justice in www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/Pakistan%20JJ%20report%20-%20FINAL%204.04.pdf?PHPSESSID=1acbe292343fd8d4aa735926ee89aa79 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
In his trial, Iqbal
made a point of claiming that as no one ever notices when a street child
disappears, he could have gone on to kill 500 before anyone took action. The revelation of Iqbal's
horrific crimes, committed with two teen accomplices, woke up human rights
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