An unknown child, aged seven, recently died after falling in an open gutter at Mowach Goth near Ghosiya Mill, Karachi
KARACHI: I am glad that Ali Haider Gilani has been recovered and is safely back home. I am also glad that the prime minister sent his special plane to carry him back from Afghanistan. I am, likewise, glad that the army chief called up and congratulated his father, Yousuf Raza Gilani.
I now hope the government will work just as enthusiastically to recover all kidnapped children of Pakistan. I hope that the prime minister will send his special plane to bring back all the children who have been kidnapped. But how do we deal with the issue of kidnapping when it is done by militants of another kind? Our children are being kidnapped using weapons of misgovernance, callousness and incompetence. These kidnapped children never return and their dead bodies are recovered either by chance or by volunteers. This category of kidnappers is worse than those who kidnap with weapons.
An unknown child, aged seven, recently died after falling in an open gutter at Mowach Goth near Ghosiya Mill in Karachi. Volunteers pulled out his lifeless body. There were no phone calls of condolence or private planes to return the child’s body to his home and family. The children of the poor will keep falling and dying in open gutters. This vicious cycle will end only when the chief minister’s son and the one who died in the gutter were to be playing together and had an equal chance of falling in an open gutter.
Naeem Sadiq
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2016.
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