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Pakistan TV show hosted by Aamir Liaquat Hussain gives away babies to audience
Cable News Network ^ | July 31, 2013 | Updated 0509 GMT | Saima Mohsin and Katie Hunt

Posted on 07/30/2013 11:04:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Plumbing new depths in the battle for television ratings, abandoned babies are being given away on a controversial prime-time game show in Pakistan.

TV host Aamir Liaquat Hussain presented baby girls to two unsuspecting couples during his show, which is broadcast live for seven hours a day during the month of Ramadan. …

The baby girls given away on the show were found by an NGO, the Chhipa Welfare Association, which says it receives up to 15 abandoned babies a month. …

“Pakistan wake up,” Shamim Mahmood wrote on the NGO’s Facebook page. “Babies are not trophies to be handed to just anyone.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abandonedbabies; napl; pakistan; pockiston; rop
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To: a fool in paradise
"Ever'body gets a new baby!!!"

But you have to pay the taxes yourself.

21 posted on 07/31/2013 1:54:14 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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