Their cries go unheard

AFP Published August 26, 2011
Street child Rizwan (C covered his face) allegedly abused by a policeman. looks on while waiting for food donations in downtown Karachi.
Street child Rizwan (C covered his face) allegedly abused by a policeman. looks on while waiting for food donations in downtown Karachi.
Sex worker Nadeem, who pimps ten teenage sex workers aged 14-18, chats on a porno website in a cyber cafe in Karachi.
Sex worker Nadeem, who pimps ten teenage sex workers aged 14-18, chats on a porno website in a cyber cafe in Karachi.
Nadeem walks down the stairs of a building in Karachi.
Nadeem walks down the stairs of a building in Karachi.
Nadeem lights a cigarette in the downtown neighbourhood of Saddar in Karachi.
Nadeem lights a cigarette in the downtown neighbourhood of Saddar in Karachi.
A child scavenger leans on a car in downtown Karachi.
A child scavenger leans on a car in downtown Karachi.
A street child sex worker sniffs glue in downtown Karachi.
A street child sex worker sniffs glue in downtown Karachi.

According to charities which work to protect street children in Pakistan, up to 90 per cent are sexually abused on the first night that they sleep rough and 60 per cent accuse police of sexually abusing them. Karachi is home to Pakistan’s biggest community of street children -- tens of thousands of victims of domestic violence and broken homes, drugs and crime in the steamy port city. -Photos by AFP

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Shah
Aug 27, 2011 04:25am
True face of Pakistan. Let the world see it!
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far
Aug 27, 2011 04:32pm
Its terrible ...nobody is safe .what. has happened to mankind why it is acting like beast.
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