My Article Published In Pak-Observer.
Child labour: Set off alarm bells!
Children are the future of any nation _the future of Pakistan is begging, sweeping floors and washing cars. Child labour is a tragedy and social injustice. It has been banned by the constitution of Pakistan, but this crime is being committed without any embarrassment and with freedom.
Children, who should have pen in hands have wipers. Around 3.3 million children under age of 14 are labouring in Pakistan. It is an alarming situation, when education is a fundamental right of every child, why are children being bereaved of it and why is there social inequality? Why sons of a farmer become farmers; nature does not plan like this, system makes it so.
Day follows day, children get birth and child labour increases. Many writers have already written much on it and alarmed the government, but no corrective actions are taken. It is an appeal to the state of Pakistan, do something immediately for the future of nation, otherwise the child labour will end up in begging and this will destroy the national honour and esteem and then the whole edifice.
Zuhaib Ahmed Pirzada
Thatta Makli
Pak-Observer
31-12-2014.
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