The curse of Vagrancy in Pakistan
Abstract
Poverty and Vagrancy are an interlinked phenomenon, and the boundaries are blur as to which one leads to the other. Among many social issues, Pakistan faces the challenge of homelessness to date. The ratio of vagrancy and beggars is higher in the poorer provinces, which leads to unavoidable and difficult circumstances. The terms Vagrancy and begging, often interchanged, are analyzed in the following study, in addition to the legal steps taken for curbing it – not through occasional police crackdowns, but rather through well-established mechanisms.
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