For every nation, every new generation holds the promise of a better tomorrow. A popular cold-war strategy among nations is to target the youth of one’s foes to make them vulnerable to corruption and hence weaken it from the inside.

In the past decade, Pakistan has opened up to the new world order or the concepts of the global village, as many like to dub it. Although the boons have been many, it also has its fair share of banes, such as new family values which have led to the new age of the nuclear family where independent family units are so engrossed in the business of making money and holding separate jobs to provide modern-day comforts that they and up ignoring the ones they love - their children. Once left on their own devices, the young become vulnerable to all sorts of external dangers, the most prominent of them being mental, physical and drug abuse.