(133) The effectiveness, sustainability, impact, and appropriateness of assertive outreach to people who
beg would be significantly contingent, therefore, upon service system expansion and enhancement.
Understanding and responding to begging
This was equally true under the sultanates of the Selucid Turks of the 10th and 11th centuries (Togril
Beg, Alp Arslan and Malik Shah, with the decisive vizier Nizam al-Mulk), or under Ulugh
Beg, a member of the Timurid dynasty (descended from Tamerlane).
Samarkand
A beggar who used to
beg in the Temple of the City God in Shanghai's old Chinese City once recalled: "Begging had its technique.
BECOMING URBAN: MENDICANCY AND VAGRANTS IN MODERN SHANGHAI
Section 36 of the act says: 'If a person employs a child for begging or causes a child to
beg or, having the custody, charge or care of a child connives at or encourages employment of the child for begging or uses a child, connives at or encourages employment of the child for begging, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years but which shall not be less than three months and with fine which may extend to Rs100,000 but which shall not be less than Rs10,000.'
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The council says many who
beg do so to fund an addiction or because they're being exploited by others and that the new team will try to get them to accept help and support.
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On June 27, SC ordered to appoint the chairman of PEMRA within the 2 day, the Ministry of Information issued the notification for the appointment of Mirza Saleem
Beg as Chairman of PEMRA for 4 years while implementing the SC order.
Mirza Mohammad Salim Beg appointed chairman PEMRA
There are many reasons why people
beg: mental health issues, relationship breakdown, debt, the effects of welfare reform.
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In the footage,
Beg could be seen being kicked and punched as several people, including security guards, stepped in to try to remonstrate with his attackers.
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Inevitably, we ask them about the mendicants, and they are always firm: 'We would never
beg.'
We would never beg
Habib also provided the court a photo with his written statement in which he had been shown to be one of the persons along with the then President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan and uniformed officers of Pakistan Army having conversation with Mirza Aslam
Beg.
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New figures published by the Central Statistics Office show 65 offences of allowing a child under 16 to
beg, compared to 73 offences recorded in the whole of 2009.
65 ARRESTED OVER CHILD BEGGING
Sgt Scott Lloyd, of the city centre neighbourhood policing team, said: "The decision of the court to impose this order reinforces our commitment to taking action against those who persistently
beg in Cardiff city centre.
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During proceedings, the court expressed its displeasure over the parents of the beggars and asked why they had sent their children to
beg on the roads.
13 child beggars taken off the streets
But, I have seen fit and healthy people sit on footpaths and on road signals just to
beg. This is dependency.
Begging a business?
One of the people they arrested, was an Arab who was using two children to
beg. When the police stopped the two boys, they denied being beggars.
Man who used children for begging among 35 held