11.20.2008

Pakistan: Tears as poverty-stricken parents abandon children

KARACHI, Nov 18: Three women abandoned their children, eight in all, to their fate by placing them under the care of the Edhi Foundation on Tuesday.

Aged between five and 12 years, the children, some in tears, appeared scared and unaware of the reason that had forced their parents to leave them at the country’s largest charity.

Bilquees Edhi, of the Edhi Foundation, said she knew of no precedent that eight children of living parents were left at any of its centres.

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