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Crumbling Pakistan economy puts children's futures on hold / 339D932
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Sixteen-year-old Nadia was forced to drop out of school last year to help boost family finances by joining her mother as a maid. It is a familiar story in Pakistan, where millions of families are feeling the brutal effects of an economy on the brink of collapse.
Pakistan's finances have been wrecked by years of financial mismanagement and political instability -- a situation exacerbated by a global energy crisis and devastating floods that left a third of the country under water last year. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES