Pakistan; Child selling is thriving

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Now a days Pakistan is battling with many Problems, it has to fight with terrorism, prize hiking, target killing, drone attacks to sustain its stability but now there is another problem which is raising it head among these problems and it is the selling of children by the parents, and it is rising every day. It is really crucial situation where parents are selling their children to buy some food.


In last year we have seen a continues increase in the prizes of food, in just last year the prize of floor has raised ten percent and 6.8 million were pushed down into the poverty and people are forced to sell their children, according to the NGO working in the Karachi in 2011 about 130 cases of child selling came in view, these children are then forced to work in the brick industry, carpet industry, textile industry and in hotels or as the servants in homes or sometimes they are thrown into the business of beggary and prostitution.

 

According to statistics about half of million children are working in these industries and every year 30 thousands children are coming into the business. In 2011 a TV channel interviewed a man who confessed that he has sell his 10 year old son to a brick merchet as he has to pay the one lakh debt. he sell his child to that merchant and now his son name sajjad is working as a domestic servant in a house at Lahore. He said that he is ashamed that he end his son education and sell him but now i can educate my two other children.

There is other story which came in lime light when a mother of three tried to sell his children in the Vehari, her husband was a drug addict and she has o source to nourish her children, and she has no way other then to sell her children. Every day many children are thrown into the life of misery and they live their whole life in the wait of an angel who will bring them out of their hellish life.



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