The strangest of crimes keep happening in Karachi. Few months ago, an FIR was lodged at Shah Latif Town regarding disappearance of a school-aged child, Hussain Ali. Lo and behold, this child was spotted begging outside a mosque in the same area together with an adult beggar.

According to police, an uncle of the child had gone to offer prayers at a mosque in Sector A-16 of Shah Latif Town where to his utter surprise he found his missing nephew begging outside the mosque along with a man. The uncle and area residents caught the man, who was beaten and handed over to police. He was identified as Shaharyar.

More strange revelations as during grilling, the arrested person told the police that he did not kidnap the child, but it were his in-laws who had given him the child. On the information extracted from the suspect, the police also arrested the couple pointed out by him. The above story raises several questions that require answers, and in fact uncovers some basic and ugly facts about begging and kidnappings in our sprawling city of........

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