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2011-10-12 India-Pakistan
 Father marries off 10 year old daughter to resolve debt
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Posted by Fred 2011-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 converts into £110
Posted by Kojack 2011-10-12 04:03||   2011-10-12 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Finally, I think I am beginning to see a way out for the Eurozone.
Posted by Perfesser 2011-10-12 08:33||   2011-10-12 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Just google "mother sells daughter" for US results. Terrible, tragic, but drugs are a common thread.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-12 09:02||   2011-10-12 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Another success for Drug Prohibition!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-12 10:38||   2011-10-12 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Right. How are the druggies going to pay for their drugs? Oh, that's right we'll all subsidize them. Alcohol consumers will be right in line in back of them.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-12 11:21||   2011-10-12 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The article doesn't say which drug(s) the father was addicted to, but it might well be that said chemcals are legal in Pakistan. Cheap, legally available drugs just enable the addict to consume more before running into economic difficulties.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-12 13:33||   2011-10-12 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, that's right we'll all subsidize them.

Libertarians don't think that far ahead.
Posted by Pappy 2011-10-12 14:05||   2011-10-12 14:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Ending prohibition didn't end alcoholism, but it was still better than the alternative. Ever heard of "harm reduction"? No one is asking you to subsidize beer or anything else. A lot of people like to get high, always have, always will. Deal with it.
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-10-12 17:29||   2011-10-12 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 "...it might well be that said chemcals are legal in Pakistan..."

You obviously don't understand sharia.

Everything not mandatory is forbidden.
Posted by mojo 2011-10-12 17:58||   2011-10-12 17:58|| Front Page Top

#10 > Everything not mandatory is forbidden.

Code Napoleon law works the same way.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-12 18:04||   2011-10-12 18:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Two pounds a pound, classy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-12 18:44||   2011-10-12 18:44|| Front Page Top

#12 You obviously don't understand sharia.

Everything not mandatory is forbidden.

Opium poppies grow wild as well as under cultivation, marijuana plants grow wild, people go blind and mad from homemade hooch regularly, they have commonly used illegal recreational drugs that we don't use here...Sharia is beside the point, mojo.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-12 23:33||   2011-10-12 23:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry -- all that was about Pakistan.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-12 23:34||   2011-10-12 23:34|| Front Page Top

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