PAKISTAN is unkind to its children. The NCRC’s State of Children in Pakistan Report 2024 scans the grim circumstances our young are forced to navigate, and spells out the systemic apathy towards their safety, health and progress. It asserts that the country faces tremendous difficulties in safeguarding the rights of 112m children — 40pc of the population — with inconsistencies in health and education: over 26m children between five to 16 years of age are out of school amid a ‘learning crisis’, and one in........

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