Educating our Daughters
Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. More than 40 percent of girls — two out of every five — never enroll in school. The situation is especially alarming in rural areas due…
Child labor versus education
PAKISTAN has recently passed laws that greatly limit child labor and indentured servitude, but those laws are universally ignored. Some 11 million children, aged four to 14, keep the country’s factories operating, often working in brutal and…
Ensuring children’s future
THIS is apropos of Waseem Ahmad Shah’s article ‘Future of child-related laws hangs in balance’ (May 30). Looking at the dismal state of children in most parts of the world, one can easily predict that Convention on…