Balochistan CM provides cash, warm clothes to shoe-polishing kid in viral video

QUETTA: Balochistan chief minister Jam Kamal Khan on Friday provided financial assistance to the shoe-polishing street kid in snow-hit Quetta after he had announced guardianship a day earlier.

The CM Secretariat summoned the innocent child, Asadullah, and presented him a sum of cash, ration, and other items for domestic needs. Khan also provided warm clothes to the street child who was seen shivering in the cold earlier in a viral video.

After handing over the items, the minister patted the child’s head before he went home, the provincial government's spokesperson, Liaquat Shahwani, said.

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Earlier, after the video surfaced, Shahwani had told Geo.tv that the video of the helpless child circulating on social media made him very "upset".

"It’s heart-wrenching to look at these visuals. I was hurt and upset when I saw those visuals," the spokesperson had said. "The chief minister has taken responsibility for this [shoe-polishing] child himself.

“We have already allocated a budget of 50 crore [Rs500 million] for child protection authority and will do effective legislation against child labour," he had added.