Pakistani celebrities raise concerns about increasing child abuse rate

• Child abuse in Pakistan has raised to an alarming level in recent times.
• Many Pakistani celebrities have been raising their voices against child abuse in Pakistan.

The rising rate of child abuse in Pakistan has got everyone talking, including Pakistani celebrities who are raising their voices against the heinous crime.

One such recent incident has exposed the ugliest reality of thriving child abuse crime in our society when a government servant of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) was arrested few days ago for child pornography and sexual abuse.

Taking to Twitter, actor Mehwish Hayat, who is also ‘Goodwill Ambassador for the rights of the girl child’, slammed the culprit and said, “Let's use this arrest - horrific as it is - to shut down all the networks and mafias exploiting our children in this way. Perverts like this have no place in any civilised society”.

Child abuse is the most heinous of crimes. Let's use this arrest - horrific as it is - to shut down all the networks and mafias exploiting our children in this way. Perverts like this have no place in any civilised society 🙏 @mohrpakistan @MOIofficialPk https://t.co/7Hd2tq9tpe

— Mehwish Hayat TI (@MehwishHayat) November 13, 2019

Sanam Saeed, Nadia Jamil and Hamza Ali Abbasi have also talked about the same issue through social media.

He was nine. Still screaming in pain when I reached him. His pants covered in blood. He got 13 stitches. His landlord raped him.

His father is a poor Mali.

I spent the week w him non stop & all he talked abt after surgery was how he wanted ice cream. So we had ice cream everyday pic.twitter.com/t250KfE2Z2

— Nadia Jamil (@NJLahori) November 14, 2019

https://t.co/yJIDWdHKmz. May these families have the strength to testify against this man and get justice. We must provide counseling to the surviors. The whole lot must be caught,they roo must go through rehabilitation and counselling to get to the root cause of this illness.

— Sanam Saeed (@sanammodysaeed) November 13, 2019

"Those who wage war against Allah & his Messenger & create CORRUPTION in the land, thr (most severe) punishment is that you execute them, crucify them or (lesser punishments) cut off their hand and foot from opposite sides or exile them for a year (1 yr jail)." Quran 5:33 pic.twitter.com/DJ4APQ2xeg

— Hamza Ali Abbasi (@iamhamzaabbasi) November 17, 2019

Singer/activist Shehzad Roy also shared a video showing a woman beating a child. “I felt honoured when I was invited to the NA in 2013 & the honourable Speaker Dr Fahmida Mirza helped us pass the law against corporal punishment in schools but then learned that parents are allowed to hit children & that it’s a religious issue, so I was asked to stay away,” he wrote on Twitter.

I felt honoured when I was invited to the NA in 2013 & the honourable Speaker @DrFMirza helped us pass the law against corporal punishment in schools but then learned that parents are allowed to hit children & that it’s a religious issue, so I was asked to stay away @ZindagiTrust pic.twitter.com/8vPgqOVR1o

— Shehzad Roy (@ShehzadRoy) November 15, 2019