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Pakistan's street children 'exploited by police'

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Pakistan has one of the world's largest populations of street children. Around 1.5 million work and live on the streets. Local charities say children are targeted by criminal gangs and forced into become thieves and sex workers. They also claim police in the city are systematically making money from the exploitation. The BBC's Shoaid Hasan spent a day on the streets of Karachi.


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