We, being the children of a free nation, might feel that we are free by every law but the reality is not as entertaining as we might think. Children of independent nations are not free at large, they are born slaves, born to obey, born to follow and born to see their dreams shatter. �
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Being a citizen of an independent country, Islamic Republic Of Pakistan, I may never think of myself being a free soul unless I am grown enough and unless having a support of family that can take care of me that can earn enough to fill my stomach, water my tongue and pay my school fee. �I remember the day, at the age of 11, when I heard someone telling my elders at party that an old boy was kidnapped and their had been no traces of him and his relatives never got a call from the kidnappers and still his parents are waiting for him to turn around some day. �
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Is this is the case with one child or one family, no, thousands of children after leaving their homes for school, for shops to buy candies never find their way home, and I being a 11 year kid found myself fearing of being caught by such agents who sell these kidnapped children to the sheikhs of Arab countries to be used as jockeys in camel racing.
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And they don�t only kidnap them but there are many needy parents who give their children to these agents who assure a job for their children in the wealthy Arab families. �
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But now thanks to Arabs who now have agreed to use robots instead of children but still the smiles on the small faces have never returned because there are much more reasons to worry about.
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There are many pitiful souls in the free nation who kidnap the children to extinguish their need of sex and might kill them after using them. There are many war lords who get these children to fight for their evil cause. There are many children who are being slaved to work in cocoa farms.�
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And if they are not killed, raped and slaved they work every minute to earn very little for their families, or they beg , they rob , they drug themselves.
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Most of the children here in underdeveloped countries are in state of such misery that they literally don�t have any home, no school to attend, no good clothes to wear; what they can do is collect garbage, or work for a dollar a day.
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And then they might end up in some madrassa which will teach them extremism, brain wash them, make them hate this world and end up blowing them up with other innocent souls.
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The issue of mistreating the children in the underdeveloped countries is not yet solved by the governments, though the governments are making efforts. This issue can only be addressed if the youth of these nation take the responsibility upon their shoulders to make their elders realize that the next victim of the slavery, kidnapping or rap might be their children. Today�s youth will be the power of tomorrow�s world, today�s youth is going to shape the world tomorrow, and it is in fact the responsibility of YOUNG MINDS to feel the responsibility, to offer their service and to work for the cause till the JOB IS DONE .