Pakistan's begging network spread to foreign countries, annual income of Pakistani beggars is $42000000000
According to Dawn's report, the population of Pakistan is 23 crores, out of which 3.8 crore are professional beggars. The national average income of a beggar is 850 Pakistani rupees per day. These beggars reportedly get 32 billion rupees in alms every day, which is 117 trillion rupees annually. The annual income of Pakistani beggars in US dollars is 42 billion dollars. How much do Pakistani beggars earn?
The Dawn report says that 38 million people are earning $42 billion annually without doing anything. This is directly affecting the rest of the country's population and is the reason for the rise in inflation. A report by the Business and Society Center in Pakistan says that the trend of begging is increasing in the country because it is earning more than other unskilled labour.
According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), 2.5 to 11 percent of Pakistan's population is begging to earn a living. Express Tribune figures that about 12 lakh children roam the streets of the country's major urban centres. What are the complaints received from abroad?
The Pakistan government has collected data of people traveling abroad to beg on the streets. These figures are being collected because 90 percent of the beggars caught abroad are of Pakistani origin. Iraqi and Saudi ambassadors have even complained about this to the Pakistan government.
The Pakistan government has suspended passports of thousands of beggars who go to countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran under the guise of religious pilgrimage and beg. In the last two and a half years, 44,000 beggars have been sent back to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Time of India
32 minutes ago
- Time of India
Was there a ceasefire violation with Pakistan? Army rejects reports
File photo NEW DELHI: The Army on Tuesday denied reports of ceasefire violations in Jammu & Kashmir's Poonch region. "There have been some media and social media reports regarding ceasefire violation s in the Poonch region. It is clarified that there has been no ceasefire violation along the Line of Control," the Indian Army said, according to news agency ANI. Earlier, PTI, citing official sources, reported that the army had retaliated to the Pakistani ceasefire violation, with a firing exchange continuing for 15 minutes.
Hindustan Times
an hour ago
- Hindustan Times
For Pakistan & US, it is back to doing business
There is a discernible sense of satisfaction within Pakistan's strategic fraternity at the undeniable uptick in the US-Pakistan interface over the past few months. Some may dispute the extent, but given how the relationship had eroded in the past decade-and-a-half, any improvement represents a big change. Given the transactional nature that dominates the US, there is the temptation to find direct factors for the upswing in US-Pakistan relations. (AP) The principal milestones of the US-Pakistan downturn are well known. For Pakistan, the US detection and killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 in Abbottabad was a betrayal and a public humiliation. For many Pakistanis, that the US acted clandestinely deep inside Pakistan superseded the enormity of the fact that Osama had been living there all the time under the very noses of the Pakistan military. The free fall continued with mounting US frustrations over Pakistan's double game in Afghanistan. President Trump's 2018 New Year Day tweet exemplified this view. The tweet underlined US foolishness in giving Pakistan billions of dollars in aid in return for deceit and lies! This was consistent with emergent US narratives about Pakistan, but that it was from the President himself made it doubly significant. Through the Biden tenure matters crystallised at a low plateau of bad blood and mutual recriminations. The US's final withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 in disorder and disarray added another layer to the deep strategic mistrust and suspicion that now characterised the relationship. President Biden did not have even a telecon with Imran Khan during the time he was PM and Imran Khan in turn blamed the US for his premature ouster from power. In the meantime, most US military and security assistance was suspended. What perhaps hurt Pakistan the most was the impact this had on training programmes for Pakistan military officers in the US. All this happened also when the India-US relationship seemed effortlessly to go from strength to strength. This further highlighted the distance between Washington and Islamabad. The past few months appear quite different. The change was animated quite dramatically by Field Marshal Asim Munir being hosted by President Trump in June 2025 in the immediate aftermath of Operation Sindoor. It is most unusual — perhaps even unprecedented — for a US president to host a chief of a foreign military who is not a head of State or government. This shift also coincides with new ambiguities in the US-India interface — perhaps triggered by President Trump's constant reiteration of having prevented further escalation in the India-Pakistan conflict during Operation Sindoor. To many in Pakistan, this has 'internationalised' Kashmir and highlighted the importance of third-party intervention as equally that even the US was skeptical about India's claims and demands. There had been earlier indicators of change beginning with President Trump's acknowledgement of Pakistan's counter-terrorism assistance in his State of the Union Address in March 2025. The allocation of a significant financial package as assistance to Pakistan for maintaining its F16 aircraft despite an otherwise stringent foreign aid cutback, was another. Alongside, more even-handed references to the India-Pakistan dynamic, meetings and telephone conversations between the US secretary of State and senior Pakistan leaders further underlined this shift. The announcement of a US-Pakistan Trade Agreement, albeit with a 19% tariff on imports from Pakistan, and Trump's enthusiastic references to hydrocarbon exploration and investment, are but the latest in this trend. The trade agreement may not be the best deal Pakistan could have got, but it is not as bad as could have been, and in any case some deal was better than no deal as far as the government of Pakistan was concerned. It may well be argued that there is nothing particularly significant in these transitions, but for most Pakistanis they suggest a return of their country to the US's radar after a long period of being out in the cold. What explains this shift? Given the transactional frame of mind that dominates the US, there is always the temptation to look for a direct and material factor. Numerous reasons are, therefore, assigned for this shift in US policy. Pakistan's counter-terrorism potential and the assistance it can offer is one. That the US is keen to have some relationship with Pakistan given the growing spread of China in the region is another. There is also the view that recommendations of the US Central Command on Pakistan's military potential vis-à-vis Iran in terms of its geographical location and the value of its air bases may have registered on the Presidency amid the current situation in West and South West Asia. Some argue that this shift in policy was also pushed along by crypto currency deals, and by US interest in potential Pakistani reserves of rare earth minerals. Each of these explanations may have some merit but perhaps the weight of any or all of these should not be exaggerated. Instead, it is useful to refocus on some basics. Pakistan is the fifth largest country in the world in terms of population with some 250 million people. It is riven by instability. It has nuclear weapons. It is situated in a sensitive geo-political location, almost in a global fault line. Given these attributes it was always only a matter of time that the long downturn in US Pakistan relations would reverse and US interest in Pakistan would reignite. We are at that stage now. All major powers decide on policies based on an appreciation of their own interests and their own understandings of evolving situations. To think that the long downturn in US Pakistan relations would have simply continued or that the US would see developments from our perspective alone is, and never was, a realistic assessment. We should take this shift in our stride. If some in India feel betrayed or dismayed at this turn of events, they have only themselves to blame. TCA Raghavan is a former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan. The views expressed are personal.
News18
2 hours ago
- News18
Crossborder Firing By Pakistan In Poonch, Indian Side Retaliates: Sources
The reports of Pakistani firing along the Line of Control came from Mankote sector in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district Days after the Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch, there were reports of crossborder firing by Pakistan in the Mankote sector of the district on Tuesday. According to sources, the firing from across the border was unprovoked but the Indian side retaliated effectively. This comes soon after two heavily-armed terrorists, believed to be members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), were killed in a fierce gunfight on July 30. Army troops had foiled their infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district. This was also days after security forces eliminated three hardcore terrorists, who were involved in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, in a forest in Srinagar. The army had said the operation on July 30, conducted under the code name 'ShivShakti', was a major setback to nefarious designs of Pakistan-sponsored terrorist organisations that are constantly abetting acts of terror in Jammu and Kashmir. It had recovered war-like stores including two assault rifles with ammunition, one pistol with ammunition, hand grenades, two improvised explosive devices, medicines, communication device and other logistic stores. (With PTI inputs) view comments First Published: Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
