CHILD abuse is so prevalent that the UN ranked Pakistan as the least safe country for children. Even so, more than five years after the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act, 2020 — Pakistan’s first national child protection law — central provisos, including the agency for rapid alerts for missing children, are lifeless due to shoddy implementation. The Islamabad High Court has taken notice of data from the ICT administration — 562 criminal cases relating to missing children and child........

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