Government must also take serious action against child abduction which is definitely not a trivial issue
KARACHI: I would like to highlight the issue of kidnapping of children in Pakistan through your newspaper. In Pakistan, kidnapping is a common crime which is being neglected as a trivial issue and not given the kind of importance that it requires. Now kidnapping children for ransom has become as common as beggary.
Last year in Pakistan, about 35,000 cases of child kidnapping were reported, and this is expected to rise this year. The abductors usually kidnap children in streets, shops and parks. Later parents are asked to pay a large sum of money for the release of kidnapped children. It is important that when the government talks about improving the law and order situation in the country it must also take serious action against child abduction which is definitely not a trivial issue.
Fariya Zehra
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2018.
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