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Growing up in the streets of Karachi
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According to charities which work to protect street children in Pakistan, up to 90 percent are s e xually abused on the first night that they sleep rough and 60 percent accuse police of s e xually abusing them. Karachi is home to Pakistan¹s biggest community of street children -- tens of thousands of victims of domestic violence and broken homes, drugs and crime in the steamy port city used by NATO to ship supplies to Afghanistan. More than 170,000 street children live on the streets across the country.

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