It is important for us to cure these children before they are recruited by the Taliban as suicide bombers.
LAHORE: This is with reference to your editorial of May 16 titled “State of our children”. We need to know why it is taking so long to legislate for children; why budgetary allocations for child-centred programmes remain at bare minimum levels and why there is still no statutory body to protect and promote child rights in Pakistan. How can we expect Pakistan to prosper without investing in our children? It is important for us to cure these children before they are recruited by the Taliban as suicide bombers.
Salma Tahir
Published in The Express Tribune, May 17th, 2011.
