<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d845f391-f7c5-41c4-8bd4-7c237b3c7ffe/7841CD78-EBCC-4B8B-B1DB-9EDE837F4042/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03" href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dawn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03">Although Pakistan has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the rights of its children continue to be abused. Child labour is merely one part of the picture. There is also the matter of corporal punishment, routinely meted out in schools across the country despite having been prohibited by ministerial and provincial government directives issued at different points in all the provinces.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dawn.com/img/DE4C6B25-6940-4DCF-8E2A-B720FC0EFA11" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03"><DIV class="setfont" id="image_txt"> Corporal punishment is the major cause behind the high dropout rate of school-going children. — APP/FilE Photo </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03"><P>The punishments include beatings bordering on physical assault, children being forced to assume uncomfortable and at times dangerous positions for prolonged periods, and physical or emotional humiliation that leaves scars that are all the deeper for being invisible. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-corporal-punishment-hs-03">The recent case in Multan, where an eight-year-old girl was beaten so severely by her teacher that she had to be hospitalised, is just one example</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7841CD78-EBCC-4B8B-B1DB-9EDE837F4042/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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