The “Rat People” of Pakistan
By Saleem Khan • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics • 6 CommentsYou may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of child labour.
In Pakistan, there are many beggars on the streets but the one’s that will strike you the most are the “rat people”. Now, I’m not going to use that term again because it implies these poor people are sub-human, like animals, and if they’re looked upon this way, people will tend not to treat them as human beings. What low-budget government research in Pakistan has shown is that there could be about 10,000 of these poor kids in Pakistan.
They have been labelled with their ugly name because they have distorted features; rodent-like teeth, large pointy ears, long noses, big eyes, sloping heads, and fingers almost twice as long as the average persons. These beggars all have similar features; indicating whatever has happened to them is a similar situation. They have no distinct gender and cannot reproduce. They are sometimes mute and mostly mentally retarded. They are feared by the local people and so are the most “successful” beggars as superstitious passer-bys hastily shove rupees in their hands so that bad luck doesn’t befall them.
Close by, is the child’s keeper, the man that takes all of the money and places the child out to beg in the forty degree heat. The children have no family and no-one knows where they come from. However, now some shocking suspicions have been voiced about who exactly are these unfortunate children. The reporter says: “I realise I was either witnessing a ghoulish aberration of nature, in the shape of an unfortunate child whose entire mental and physical growth had been distorted by some chromosomal trick, or else I was looking into the face of a human nightmare deliberately created somehow by man for his own profit.”
The article implies that the origin of these beggar children is from the shrine of Shah Daula in a town called Gujrat. The people of Gujrat go to the shrine to ask God for children. When their first baby is born, they willingly give their baby up. The babies are taken and manipulated by some sick, twisted, evil, warped doctor of genetics and his cronies. The skull of a newborn baby is soft and underdeveloped. These people strap metal devices onto the skull of the baby that breaks the soft, bone and tampers with the pituitary gland.
The pituitary gland is a very special gland in the base of the skull. It controls hormones and decides the size, shape and sexual development of a child. If damaged, results like we see in the beggar children of Pakistan can occur. The crimes that people commit against children, causing physical distortion so that they can use kids to make money is just inhumane in the extreme. This is worse than pimps exploiting children in prostitution and it’s hard to believe that people would go to such lengths to make money. If people refused to give rupees to the beggars, the criminals will realise their “industry” has just died and will not deform any more children but what happens to the ones already out there? And I know, if I see a child begging on the street, I would find it very difficult to refuse them money.
Of course, ultimately the best thing would be if the people behind this are investigated, charged and punished but, it seems to me, Pakistan is too wrapped up in military affairs and boasting of building an atomic bomb to be looking after its more vulnerable race. It really is disgusting.
You can watch the video on same by clicking the link: Demand high for Pakistan’s ‘rat people’
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Dear TPS team:
It was not supposed to be tagged under POLITICS. It is social issue, not political. Thanks.
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Oh, my God! Horrific! Really really Horrific! Making permanent disabilities in the children and then making them beg in the streets. You really ought to make a detailed investigation in this matter. Its inhuman! Where is the government of the country?
PERMANENT DISABILITY
As said by Najeeba that it is very horrific that children are intentionally made permanent disable for begging. This can be seen by visible eye. These disablities are done by greedy illitrate people who could not focus more than money making.
But there is another form of disablilty which we are doing to all of us.this known and planned disability thats why it is also an offence . And by doing this we make our people life miserable . The disability is known as ” Power Crises in Pakistan.”
Basically we are burning one form of fuel to generate another form of fuel. This made us dependend of raw fuel . So if there is no raw fuel there is no power production.I am talking about oil based power plants .
Power is the basic need of country. It was the responsibility of our policy makers to review their decesions before implimentation. Our power plants are running on the product which is being import .this import is causing the export of dollars every day in the form of fuel. this single export of oil dollar is the major portion of total export of forign exchange.Secondly if there is threat on our National economy this effect directly to our power productions . As we seen few months back. That due to non payment of fuel all plants were shut down. Means ZERO. When oil companies paid back then supply resumed. This continuous export of dollar made our Rupee miserable in the market. And the man who is earning 10000 a month is hardly fullfill the fooding expance of his family. Consider what will happen to whom is getting Rs 6000 a month.
Load sheding can be seen everywhere. This load sheding is not because of the power production. This load is because of the expansive and dependent methods which we are adopting to produce energy. You can see as Govt. increase the price of electricity twice immidiately this country became out of power crises by 70%.
This shows the past has been developed on dependent resouces.Or when you will able to pay you will produce power and when you will unable to pay you will never get power.
Cost of the power.
Govt. provide electricity to the industry which keeps our industry running.The cost of electricity is 5% of the cost of product . And from this 5% government get revenue of hardly 1%. Or you can say Govt. saved 1% of product cost against provision of electricity. But if this industry runs regularly it pays 3.5% incom tax plus 15% sales tax and 6% indirect imposed taxes.etc. This is the incom generated by government if our industry runs regularly.
If govt. will provide Tax free power to the industry Govt. will loose hardly 1% of the product cost. That will generate approximately 25% of the product cost as a tax revenue if industry runs. contd.
Najeeba,
Why are you asking “Where is the government of the country?”
Didn’t you know that there is no governent in your country.
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