The United States of America (US) has removed Pakistan from the watch listof the countries involved in the recruitment of child soldiers.
According to the details, Pakistan was put on the Child Soldiers PreventionAct (CSPA) List in 2021 and the report published in 2021 claimed that thecountry had furnished “material support to non-state armed groups thatrecruited and used child soldiers”.
The report detailed that the Government of Pakistan had failed to reportinvestigating, prosecuting, or convicting the elements involved in theoffense of recruiting child soldiers in 2021, and had demanded that thecountry “cease support for non-state armed groups that recruit and/or usechild soldiers”.
Prior to this, the US State Department had observed in April 2019 that thePakistan Army had declared that it would bring under the control of thegovernment 30,000 madrassas, some of which were from where non-state armedgroups would forcibly recruit child soldiers.
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The other countries on the CSPA List this year are Afghanistan, SouthSudan, the Central African Republic, Congo, Somalia, Mali, Myanmar, Russia,Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Venezuela.
