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'I Know It's Immoral': Child Workers Still Common In Pakistan

Millions of Pakistani children are employed as domestic helpers by well-off families, an illegal practice that brings grief to families often too poor to seek justice (Credit: AFP)

From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.

Like millions of Pakistani children, she is a household helper, an illegal but common practice that brings grief to families often too poor to seek justice.

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