Day In Pictures 12-13-11

A young student cries after being rescued following a police raid on Madrassa Zakarya in Karachi late on December 12, 2011. Pakistani police rescued 45 students found chained in the basement during a raid late December 12 on an Islamic seminary in the southern port city of Karachi, police said. According to government records, there are at least 15,148 seminaries in Pakistan with more than two million students -- around five percent of the 34 million children in formal education.

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A young student cries after being rescued following a police raid on Madrassa Zakarya in Karachi late on December 12, 2011. Pakistani police rescued 45 students found chained in the basement during a raid late December 12 on an Islamic seminary in the southern port city of Karachi, police said. According to government records, there are at least 15,148 seminaries in Pakistan with more than two million students -- around five percent of the 34 million children in formal education.

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