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Karachi: The Sindh government has announced its plan to reserve some of the public parks in Karachi dedicated for the recreation of differently-abled persons, especially autistic children.
The announcement was made by Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, while addressing a seminar on Autism: Current challenges and the way forward” organised by the Pakistan Centre for Autism (PCA).
The PCA office-bearers told the audience at the seminar that there were around 3,50,000 autistic children in Pakistan and some 40,000 of them are in Karachi alone.
Apart from their special care, these children should get the chance to spend time at public places like shopping malls, restaurants, and parks for greater social exposure as that would help in their early rehabilitation.
The CM mentioned that about 400 public parks were rehabilitated in Karachi during the tenure of the former city’s Administrator, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, and that there was no dearth of recreational spots in the provincial capital for reserving them for the special persons.
Similarly, the Sindh government will ask the cantonment areas in the city to dedicate some of their parks to the same noble cause, Shah added.
He said that dedicating parks would be part of his government’s strategy to promote the concepts of acceptability and inclusivity for differently-abled persons in society.
