They're saying that people are leaving their babies at the local waste disposal site to get rid of them. They die at this place lonely. Some of these babies are even savaged by dogs and other animals during their short live time. Another topic is adoption. Supposedly, the Pakistani society refuses adoption. Adoptive parents would be marginalized by their social environment. According to this documentary, your adoptive children can't assume your surname in Pakistan. The state doesn't allow you to designate your adoptive children as your heir. etc.
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I'm happy that people like Edhi existed. He and his wife are shown in this video. Pakistan needs somebody who clears up the society, economy and politics. I see chances, intelligent people and potential at any corner of Pakistan but your elites are wasting the future of this beautiful country.
I gathered as much from the Urdu interviews.
However, my point to you is that the documentary shows you the symptoms, not the ailment. If you peel back the layers, you can see policy, governance, and institutional failures. The failure are that of the system not the people. Why is Edhi, a charitable organisation, running private ambulances in the biggest city of Pakistan? It is not about the budget. And we don't see this happening in other cities. Likewise, why isn't the municipal government of Karachi taking responsibility for waste management? A Chinese company is now taking over (
Source). Other cities in Pakistan are doing fine. Here's the facebook page (
Link) of
Lahore Waste Management Company. Likewise, Water & Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) run its own sanitation campaigns:
The zoning issues in Karachi are so bad that there are few chain restaurants. Whereas in other cities of Pakistan, this is unheard of. Now take the example of the young girl in the documentary: where are the social planning services? She is being supported by charitable organisations. These are failures of the system, i.e., policy, governance, institutional etc.
Adoption: We tend to view adoption as
guardianship, i.e., Family Courts in Pakistan have authority to place a child in
guardianship, temporarily or permanently. I believe in Europe and America, you view this as
Fostering. The child can be fostered by immediate family, close relatives, etc. What Pakistan doesn't allow is
international adoptions. Pakistan hasn't signed the Hague Adoption Convention which regulates international adoptions party due to the flawed nature of the convention and its implementation. Here's an example of an adoptee being deported after having lived over 30 years in the U.S.
Thank you for enlightening me. Is this the reason why the government left Karachi for Islamabad?
No. There were other considerations.
Ayub Khan wanted to spread development evenly across Pakistan instead of focusing on Karachi alone. So he shifted the capital from Karachi to Rawalpindi first and then to Islamabad. Karachi had already emerged as economic hub back in the 1950s while the rest of the country lagged. Ergo, Islamabad was born. There is also the fact that Karachi (
Map) is a port city and too close to India, or seas, so there may have been some defence considerations. Though this is speculation on my part.
