Posted on 10/23/2005 11:43:04 AM PDT by Crackingham
Six-year-old Aisha loves the orange blouse and jeans given to her by the kind woman who rescued her from the chaos of the Kashmir earthquake. She snuggles up to her, trying to forget the devastation of her village home and the deaths of her parents 15 days ago. What Aisha does not know is that the woman, Kausar, is a prostitute who has bought her from relatives for 50,000 rupees (£500) and plans to put her to work in the sex trade as soon as she reaches puberty.
Aisha is not alone. According to welfare agencies, many of the hundreds of girls and boys orphaned by the earthquake are being targeted by gangs intent on turning them into prostitutes or street beggars. Other children are being sold for adoption by their parents in acts of desperation prompted by the destruction of homes and livelihoods. The Pakistani government is so alarmed by the threat to vulnerable children that it has placed armed guards at all hospitals and ordered that no child is released to anyone until proof of kinship has been verified.
A complete ban on adoption was announced after hospitals and emergency shelters were besieged by people offering to take Kashmiri orphans. Staff at the PIMS hospital in Islamabad say a number of people posing as relatives were caught trying to abduct children. But according to Manan Rana, a child protection officer working for Unicef, the United Nations childrens fund, in Muzaffarabad, near the epicentre of the earthquake, local government in Kashmir has collapsed and officials are unable to provide protection.
No official appears to have noticed when Aisha disappeared. After her home in a village called Arja was wrecked, she was taken to her grandmothers house in the nearby city of Bagh. Kausar, her new carer, who claims the little girl is a distant relative, heard about her plight from family members.
Her grandmother was too old to look after the girl. I went to Bagh on October 12 and I got her very cheap. A pimp from Lahore might have paid 100,000 rupees, she said.
I will provide a good education for her. I would not like her to be a cheap, third-class prostitute. I do care about the girl. I will take good care of her, and then reap the benefit. Im providing for her protection and I dont care what Allah thinks.
Kausar said she was earning £200 a month from prostitution, but could earn thousands more from Aisha. She will sell the girls virginity to the highest bidder when she reaches puberty and expects to get up to £2,000 for that alone. She could start work as soon as she has her first period, Kausar said.
If Aisha refuses to work as a prostitute, she will be sold to a pimp, Kausar said. She may sell Aisha sooner if she is offered £1,000, but she would not pass her on to whites or non-Muslims, she said, and she would not consider any intervention by this newspaper.
By contrast the family of Summaya, 7, managed to escape the destruction of their house in Muzaffarabad, but her parents now plan to sell her for adoption so that they can buy a new one.
Her mother, Rafia, 38, said they were hoping a good family would pay £2,500 for her and would allow them to visit her.
My husband is a daily wage labourer and hes been selling blood for 400 rupees (£4) a pint, said Rafia. If our problems are resolved, we will not sell the girl. I love her. I know another family will never be able to give the love a real mother can, but we have to compromise.
Oh yeah, white people and/or christians are dirtier and a lower life form than Muslim prostitutes.
Slavery is an honored Islamic tradition. Just another example of why this cult has to be exterminated.
Isn't islam grand?
May their judgment be quick and soon -- soon enough to spare these children.
It's difficult to know what to believe.
Well, I guess quick and soon are the same thing in this context. LOL!
Since when do Muslims wait for the girl to reach puberty. Didn't the mighty Mo take a bride of 8 years of age?
Do they still consider the West Decadent? I wonder how many slaves Osama owns (to support Earthquake victims of course.)
This is disgusting, Repunents and somewhat disturbing. The girl would be around 12 years old, What sick person would do her...Oh wait I forgot, The "packages"
Well its a religion of peace, the girls would have been a bother but now they can earn they're keep, thank you Islam for showing us the error of our Western Ways *thumbs* /extreme sarcasm off
More heartwarming news from the turd world. King Koffi needs to get back in the pulpit and demand more money from the evil rich western nations to help pay for this problem - and fast - his blue helmets are probably aching under the strain of the situation. If something isn't done for them the pressure will become too great and some of them will blow. We've got to send those peacekeepers to the region ASAP!
Who was interviewing this "Kausar" lady and why did that reporter not intervene - put a bullet in her perhaps? I guess it's their journalistic "objectivity" in not giving a damn about anything but the story and themselves.
"A pimp from Lahore..."
I wonder where "Lahore" is. It sounds French.
This guy? OOps! this photo is offensive isn't it?
Ah yes...such is the will of Allah (MHNBC!)! Aisha must never be allowed to actually have a real life, her slavery and prostitution for the Islamazi Masters is all she has to look forward to!
Ok...tell me again just WHY Islamazis and Koranimals are allowed to deplete oxygen?
I see NO redeeming value in their being alive, and a Global Threat to all human life if they are allowed to live!
Time to take off the kid gloves, and take it to the enemy...wherever they are!
If the choice is between the Aishas of the world, and the Islamazi ba$tards...."Cry Havok, and let slip the Dogs of War!"
No more child sacrifices to their demon Moon God, or their perverted Death Cult!
We need someone like Seal Team 6 to go in and grab this little girl, and to take care of the damn whore that bought her "with extreme prejudice"!
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