Children

 Children hold tools instead of pens in their hands

 In Pakistan, where poverty, inflation, and unemployment have kept the children of low-income families away from schools and education has become a dream for them, the private sector educational institutions have also made education so expensive. Even people with an average income are unable to provide quality education to their children. This is the reason why, like the poor countries around the world, in our dear country, due to problems like economic crisis, unemployment, and poverty, innocent children are being kept away from precious education. And children like Jabja Phool are seen working as domestic workers, shoe polishers, hotels, teahouses, workshops, markets, small factories, brick kilns, CNG, and petrol pumps. While forced child labor is not even considered a vice in our society. In the days of playing and reading and writing, children like flowers holding tools instead of pens and books in their hands, when they are forced by circumstances to go out to work, it is surely a tragedy for this society. Child labor is a stigma on the face of a society claiming prosperity and development, and a sign of the decline of moral values ​​of the nation. Child laborers are not born laborers, they have the same characteristics as students studying in large educational institutions, but only because of a lack of resources, do they remain "small" in society.

 In Pakistan, Article 11 of the Constitution guarantees that children will not be employed in factories, mines, and other hazardous jobs, but the tragedy is that child labor laws have been made, but to date, no one has been found guilty of violating these laws. But severe punishment has not been given and practically the situation is in front of everyone. The situation of children working in the homes of rich people is the worst, with cases of severe violence coming to the fore every day, in addition to trivial violence against child laborers in most businesses and workshops. The incidents are normal, despite the ban, labor is being taken from innocent children in brick kilns and fields in the villages and in the streets and workshops and small factories in the cities. Like the rest of the world, every year on June 12, International Child Labor Day is celebrated in Pakistan, but along with celebrating this day, there is a need for strict practical measures to end the labor of children like these flowers.

For some time now, the Department of Child Protection and Welfare Bureau has taken steps to end forced child labor and has registered cases against the perpetrators of forced labor. The Department of Child Protection and Welfare Bureau says that parents themselves send young children to work in the streets, markets, and factories, where they are not familiar with the rules of hygiene and are exposed to the noise and smoke of factories, and dirty water. More than 70 percent of child laborers contract viruses like hepatitis A, B, and C and other deadly diseases due to waste. The economic crisis in Pakistan, deprivation of facilities, exploitation

 Employment, poverty, and unfair distribution of resources have given rise to this tragedy in places that are becoming increasingly worse. Due to the inability of the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, people now have no choice but to put their children to work from the very beginning so that the hearth of their homes is kept burning and the necessities of life are met, even if it means doing so. Precious lives are at stake. Children are the bright future and asset of any nation, the more attention is paid to their best training and care, the more the chances of development of nations are. Undoubtedly, due to inflation and unemployment, many poor families have become forced to make their children work hard, but this is also not permissible.

 Society should not play any role in such an occasion. He also teaches them to take care of their rights even if they are not Muslim and the rights of relatives are even more than that. If there is a needy child or family among neighbors, relatives, or acquaintances, then it is the duty of people of status, especially relatives and neighbors, to support him. The history of Islam is full of such examples. It is the duty of society to provide adequate support to their parents for their education, health, and food instead of taking hard work from the children. To provide free education, medical treatment, and support to the children who are forced to work due to poverty. should be done, so that they can play a positive role in our future by becoming good citizens.

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