The News Minute | September 4, 2014 | 2.35 pm IST
While Pakistanis undergoing a revolution of sorts against its ruling party, there is anotheraspect of the country that not many speak of – the sexual exploitation ofthousands of its street children.
Ofapproximately four million children forced to work due to poverty, over amillion of them are lured into the world of sexual abuse from men, said theDaily Mail.
Despite thepresence of laws to protect children, while focus has been more on Talibanattacks and its likes, this growing problem has not been given importance bythe police.
Ijaz, a busconductor admits in the video ( below) that he has raped 12 different children.But like Ijaz, a survey of 1800 men showed that atleast 33 per cent of themfelt that far from being a crime it was not even a wrong thing, said the report.
“The first timeI sold myself, I didn’t even have any money,” said Naeem in the video. He wasonly eight and half years old then. Addicted to heroin, he cuts himself to deal with his anger.
A man who does business in renting beds and boys for men said 'There's often a kid wandering the streets alone. We tell these boys we'll provide food and shelter if they come with us. That's how we lure them in.," said the report explaining that most abusers are bus drivers.
Such abuse on young children leaves a scar on them; a Save the Children report found that one of ten children are murdered by men abusing them, said the Daily Mail. Sadly, the cycle of abuse continues as other children grow up to become abusers themselves, among them 13-year-old Naeem, said the report.
In the video, Imran Khan, theformer governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa says that it isone of the most “sad and shameful aspects of our society.”