Alleged pilferage: Child rights body told to submit records

Petitioner claims children not being provided basic facilities

PESHAWAR: The provincial child protection unit has been told to submit its entire record of funds spent on the welfare of children before the court on Thursday (today).

The direction came from a two-judge bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Qaisar Rashid Khan and Justice Ikramullah Khan, as they heard a child rights case filed by lawyer Saifullah Muhib Kakakhel.

Saifullah had claimed that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) child protection and welfare commission were not performing their duties properly.



“They are not performing their duties due to which children are forced to beg in the streets of the city and resultantly a number of children become the victims of sexual abuse,” Saifullah told the court.

Social welfare Additional Secretary Abid Kakakhel also appeared before the court. But when the court asked him to present a progress report for the protection of children, he said that they have started work for the welfare of children.

On the other hand, lawyer Asad Jan, appearing as an amicus curie, told the court about his report on Zamung Kor.

He said that children at welfare houses lack basic facilities.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 26^th, 2018.