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A new face of poverty in Pakistan
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by hussain | November 24, 2008 at 07:18 am
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The hunger and poverty is assuming alarming proportions in Pakistan. So far there were reports about suicides because of unemployment and poverty but a new phenomenon has emerged last week. Now the poor who cannot feed their children are leaving their children at charity homes.
Possibly after similar happening in Karachi last week, an unidentified person on Sunday left his six children aged between one and 13 years at a charity home in Lahore reportedly because of poverty and starvation.
An unidentified person left six unfortunate children of ages ranging from 1 to 13 years at Defence Edhi Centre due to poverty and starvation on Sunday.An unidentified person phoned up at Edhi Centre located in Defence Housing Society while saying that he intended to leave the children at the Centre as he had no means to bear expenses of their sustenance. After few moments of his call, that person left the children at the gate of the centre and the administration of the centre shifted them to Edhi Centre at the Township.
Sajjad, 13, Iram, 10, Kiran, 9, Aqsa, 8, Hasnain, 6, and 1-year old Hasan are the names of the six children.
The deserted children said that their uncle was accused of ransom for which the police had started investigating their parents and they were also in the police custody. They said that a God-fearing person, later on, took mercy on them and left them at the centre. The administration at the centre said that this was the unique incident in the city as somebody had left these children at the gate of the centre on account of poverty and starvation. They said that they had arranged for their accommodation and education.
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at 08:45 on November 24th, 2008
Hunger and Poverty are the root for unrest, revolutions and wars as well as extremes of all sorts.
at 10:18 on March 7th, 2009
Five regional cities should be upgraded with in the provinces in Pakistan. Regional cities of Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, Gawadar/ Qalat in Balouchistan, Sukkar/ Larkana in Upper Sind, Jehlam/ Rawalpindi and Multan in Punjab province. These regional cities have been ignored by the federal and provincial governments although these cities have their own history, culture and languages.Dera Ismail Khan in south of Pakhtun khwa is under seige, Multan/DG Khan in south of Punjab is next target of religious extremists,Sukkar/ Larkan is rule by criminals, Gawadar/ Qalat is trouble some. The people of these regions have to travel to provincial capitals for every small issue and requirement of the daily life which should be provided in nearby cities. A good number of population travel to big cities for their survival to earn livelihood as the local feudal own majority land and keep the common man as their slaves. Creation of regional government and upgrading of the regional cities will save a lot of money and time of the poor people of these regions. Circuit courts of the High Courts are already working in these areas and only requirement is the additional staff of different departments involved in additional work at the provincial capitals. The concern authorities should immediately consider to upgrade the regional cities. And immediate attention should be given upgrade the airports,TV station, civic center, libraries,hospitals, educational institutes and investment opportunities for Pakistanis living abroad and foreign firms to create jobs in the area as majority population in rural Pakistan do not have enough resources to survive.It’s remind me the condition of pre Islamic revolution of Iran in Shah time when the rural Iran was ignored and the capital Tehran was developed in a way to call it Paris of Middle East with modern life style. Couple of other big cities like Isfahan and Caspian sea was taken care of because of foreign tourists but rural area was ruled by cruel police and intelligence. Then what happen after revolution rural population moved to Tehran and other big cities. But the new government developed, built and upgraded the riral areas of the country.KHWAJA AFTAB ALI,( former secretary, Iranian embassy, Saudi Arabia) Advocate High Court & I.P. Attorney- first and only Pakistani lawyer earned scholarship to study Intellectual Property Rights in USA,presently residing in Florida, USA