Out of the 2,736 children who went missing in Karachi last year, FIRs of only 173 were registered at different police stations, as mentioned in an annual report on missing children by a nongovernmental organization.

"If a child (under 18) goes out of contact with family or guardians, he or she is considered as a missing child," said Muhammad Ali, head of Roshni Helpline, quoting the meaning of a missing child from the Sindh Child Protection Act, 2013 and the United Nation's Convention on Child Rights (UNCRC).

Based on the civil society group, about 2,736 children went missing within the jurisdictions of 114 police stations in the city in 2013. The police recorded 984 complaints but had included 811 of them as no cognizable cases and later registered FIRs of only 173 missing children.

Ali mentioned the data in the report was also gathered from mosques as the "law enforcement did not record every case that being brought to them."

Phil Everly, who with his brother, Don, comprised the most venerable vocal duet of the rock and roll era. Their elegant musical harmony deeply shaping the Beatles, the Beachboys, the Byrds and countless younger-generation rock. Folk and country vocalists, passed away Friday in Burbank, California of complications from prolonged hindering pneumonic disease, his wife, Patti Everly, told the Los Angeles Times. 

He was 74. “We are brokenhearted,” she said, mentioning the disease comprised the result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking. “He struggled long and backbreaking.

”On the height of their popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Everly Brothers charted almost three dozen hits on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Among them “Cathy’s Clown,” “Wake up Little Susie,” “Bye-Bye Love,” “When Will I Be Loved” and “All I Have to Do Is Dream.” The Everly Brothers were one of the first 10 performers inducted into the rock music hall of Fame when it took off in 1986.zoom

“They had that sibling sound,” said Linda Ronstadt, who marked among the greatest hits of her career in 1975 with her recording of “When Will I Be Loved,” which Phil Everly wrote. “The information of your DNA is carried in your voice, and you can get a sound (with family) that you never get with somebody who has not akin to you. In addition, they were some such good singers-they were among the foundations, one of the cornerstones of the new rock ‘n’ roll sound.

”Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, said Friday, “When you talk of musical harmony singing in the popular music of the postwar period, the first target you get is the Everly Brothers. ... You might link between all the 1950s outstanding doo-wop groups and what would come out the 1960s with the Beachboys and the Beatles. They showed up the Beach boys and the Beatles how to sing harmoniousness and integrate that into a pop music form that was irresistible.

”Besides his wife, his brother, Don, their mother, Margaret, sons Jason and Chris, and two granddaughters, survives Everly.