FILE PHOTO: In this photograph taken on July 31, 2025, Kashif Mirza from the NGO Sparc, a leading child rights organisation, speaks during an interview with AFP in Karachi. One in four households in Pakistan, a country of 255 million people, employs a child as a domestic worker, mostly girls aged 10 to 14, according to a 2022 report by the International Labor Organisation. - AFP
KARACHI: 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.
