KARACHI – A survey has revealed that 3,090 children reportedly went missing in Karachi in the year 2010. Child and women rights NGO, Roshni Helpline, said in its annual report out of these missing children, 2,472 (80 percent) were boys and 618 (20 percent) were girls.
“If children are out of touch with their family or guardians, we define them as missing,” said Muhammad Ali, president of the Roshni Helpline. “Everyone below the age of 18 is internationally defined as a child,” he added.
The report is compiled on reports gathered from 100 police stations in 18 towns of the city.
The majority of the missing children – 78 percent – belonged to the age group between 12 and 18, while remaining 22 percent are below 12 years of age.
About 34 percent of the missing children were studying in formal schools or madrassas, 30 percent were only students of madrassas while the remaining 26 percent had dropped out of schools or madrassas.
In many of these cases, the parents or guardians had reported the missing children to the Roshni Helpline, which helped them in lodging these cases at the police stations.
The rate of recovery of the missing children remained two percent. In some cases children have been recovered after a month
Every year thousand of children are missing in Pakistan & in cities like karachi with no followup investigations or segments mentioning as such on the news channels regarding these horrors. Where are they? what is being done to them? will they ever return?? the questions in the hearts of the helpless parents. Some articles i read where many gangs have been busted and culprits been caught who are doing business of trafficking in the similar field but any follow ups on them too? Female children are being sold or trafficked to other countries for porn films as well as far as that is concern that is all we know the rest is a mystery. Please , everyone should Pray , some should circulate emails and post on social websites regarding this and even Pray for the strength of those grieving families who dont even know and many who have no hope whether and if their children are coming home ever at all. Please if only we could for a minute think it happened to our kids then we would feel more , what the parents are going through.
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