[VIDEO] Pakistan's Child Maids

[saeedhk]

This is very heartbreaking to watch! As soon as Pakistani children from low socio-economic status hit the age of primary school, they are sent off to work as domestic helpers by their parents.From the documentary, you can deduce that poor couples keep having babies so that they can bring home a salary by working as domestic helpers.

How can a nation progress when 47% of it school-age children are out of school.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Absolutely disgusting aspect of our society and very common

 

[sweep_shot]

This is quite sad. I believe we have this problem in Bangladesh too.

No child should work like this. Imran Khan can do something about this.

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Problem is we only raise voices when these children are beaten and bruised, not in general. This is the crux of the mentality — most Pakistani households consider it ok as long as they treat the kids well.

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

Problem is we only raise voices when these children are beaten and bruised, not in general. This is the crux of the mentality — most Pakistani households consider it ok as long as they treat the kids well.

I agree that it is the common Pakistanis fault, however the mindset is they think they are helping poor families by employing there children as labor by simply feeding them, and giving there parents money.

Solution is for goverment to give these poor parents who are so desperate for money, that they need there children to work as maids, cash for sending there children to school. If they are getting the same money that they would get with their children working, there is no incentive for them not to send there children to school.

To fund this the goverment can raise tax, cut spending elsewhere or a combination of both.

 

[Zeshan547]

I know it's a big problem but 47% kids out of school, that's way too much than actual number. it's more like between 10 to 20 percent.

 

[Mamoon]

This is the government’s failure. There is no need to demonizing people who employ these children.

These young girls often work as babysitters and they get paid between 15-20k which is immensely helpful to their parents who live in extreme poverty.

These people cannot afford to send their children to school and instead of them sitting at home and doing nothing, they are utilized as a source of income.

Obviously, mistreating/torturing them is completely unjustified and such people need to be dealt with accordingly.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

This is the government’s failure. There is no need to demonizing people who employ these children.

These young girls often work as babysitters and they get paid between 15-20k which is immensely helpful to their parents who live in extreme poverty.

These people cannot afford to send their children to school and instead of them sitting at home and doing nothing, they are utilized as a source of income.

Obviously, mistreating/torturing them is completely unjustified and such people need to be dealt with accordingly.

Mistreatment/torture of these children is not rare at all. I’ve seen multiple families that do it and that’s just my experience

 

[saeedhk]

Parents are fully at fault for reproducing babies without considering their future well-being! Lack of family planning is the main reason

 

[gazza619]

This is the government’s failure.

No it isnt. It is the people’s failure for being a bunch of arrogant thugs who think that a poor maid has no human rights.

 

[Mamoon]

No it isnt. It is the people’s failure for being a bunch of arrogant thugs who think that a poor maid has no human rights.

Read my entire post and you will understand.

 

[Mamoon]

Mistreatment/torture of these children is not rare at all. I’ve seen multiple families that do it and that’s just my experience

Yes it is quite common.

 

[saeedhk]

The father of the child who daughter was tortured said he had to send her away because they were poor. But while she was away, he had one more child. This is very selfish on the part of parents!

The government needs to introduce aggressive birth control policies!!Abaadi is barbaadi!

 

[Deewana Mastana]

This is what happens when the country is over populated by the majority of them being illiterate and live in extreme conditions which then put them in the wrong hands to the society who then abuses them and misuse them which then becomes brutal.

That is only just now that more of these are coming to surface because of social media as everyone nowadays is pretty much on social media platforms and uploads any such information that has happened for the law to take its course which again still doesn't work for the poor.

Governments are to be blamed for the state of this problem as it is deep rooted due to poor infrastructure throughout the country because of no education standards or any for the poor.

 

[JaDed]

Parents are fully at fault for reproducing babies without considering their future well-being! Lack of family planning is the main reason

Govn needs to make those free meals at school and make education compulsory till 14 as well, would blame Govn and Parents equally.

 

[miandadrules]

Govn needs to make those free meals at school and make education compulsory till 14 as well, would blame Govn and Parents equally.

No.

We’d rather invest in bombs and guns.

An educated and healthy populace is harder to manipulate for an authoritarian system.

 

[MenInG]

LAHORE/DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man who allegedly subjected a minor domestic help to brutal assault and electric shocks here in the city's Samina Sadaat town has been arrested, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar's focal person on Digital Media, Azhar Mashwani, said on Sunday.

The development came after Buzdar noted with concern a viral social media video detailing the torture she bore. According to the caption shared alongside the clip, "tyrant landlord Mian Kaleem Hafeez Qureshi in Samina Sadaat brutally tortured an innocent girl working in the house".

"Apart from continuously hitting the girl with sticks, she was also subjected to electric shocks. Her only 'crime' was that she lost Rs30," the caption added.

Buzdar had sought a report from the D G Khan regional police officer. The chief minister had ordered that the culprit be immediately arrested.

He also instructed the district commissioner to have the minor girl treated at a medical facility.

Mashwani, in an update about the case, said the young girl's parents did not wish to register a first information report (FIR) over the matter after which the D G Khan police became a complainant in the case.

According to the FIR, the minor girl is six to seven years old. The case has been registered under Section 328-A (cruelty to a child) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Under the law, the accused, if found guilty, will be subjected to imprisonment of up to three years and a fine of up to Rs50,000.

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