May 16, 2022
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Child abuses rampant in Pakistan

As per details, Kasur city of Punjab province, which gained global attention after a massive number of child abuse and child pornography cases was reported…reports Asian Lite News

Pakistan witnessed an unprecedented rise in child abuse cases in 2021, with majority of the incidents involving young boys.

Details by SAAHIL, a non-government organisation which has been working for child protection, revealed startling statistics showing a massive surge in child abuse cases from major cities of the country.

As per details, Kasur city of Punjab province, which gained global attention after a massive number of child abuse and child pornography cases was reported, remains on top of the list as the most vulnerable with at least 298 incidents in 2021.

Surprisingly, twin cities Rawalpindi and the capital Islamabad are the second and third most vulnerable with 292 cases from the former and 247 cases reported in the latter.

“In the year 2021, out of the total of 3,852 cases, more than half (52 per cent) had been reported from 10 districts,” SAAHIL revealed in its findings.

Besides Kasur, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, cases were also recorded in Faisalabad (237), Gujranwala (198), Sialkot (186), Khairpur (152), Lahore (150), Okara (120), and Muzaffargarh (107).

The number of cases of abuse in 2021 were 1,000, which was an increase of at least 14 per cent from the first half of 2020.

SAAHIL said the Covid-19 pandemic was one of the prime reasons behind the increase of sexual abuse cases in the country.

“Children were home and more than 55 per cent of their abusers were acquaintances,” it said.

Interestingly, the number of cases of child sexual abuse reported by SAAHIL reveals that young boys were subjected to the abuse much more than girls.

The statistics are of cases that have been reported, while experts and child right activists claim that number of unreported cases of abuse are much more than the registered ones.

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