Child Trafficking: A Sin.
Child trafficking roots are spreading in Pakistan but
most of the victims are from Bangladesh and Afghanistan, where poverty and strife
have made it difficult for people to meet their basic needs combine this with
illiteracy and unemployment, and you will have people willing to sell their
children. As long as there is feudal system in the country, we will have human
trafficking and child labor.
Millions of children throughout the country are targets
of child trafficking. They are victims of pornography, trafficking and child
prostitution. Common reasons cited for this disgusting category of child
exploitation is poverty, low status of girls and women, rapid urbanization, break-ups
of traditional families and sensational mass media. According to international labor
organization (OIC), about 12 millions Pakistani children are forced into child
labor, especially in Punjab and KPK.
Karachi and Lahore are considered as the hub of
smuggled kids. The mafia exports these children to works as a sex slave for
various pubs and bars. In Pakistan, a child of 7 or 8 years is available 24/7
to clean your house, carry your grocery and do other chores, for Rs 2,000/-
monthly. Most people carry out worst possible abuse of these children and if the
child runs away, false cases of theft are charged on them.
The economic situation that most Pakistanis find
themselves in today with the government not doing much and a complete absence
of a social safety, what are ordinary people left to do?
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