The costs of providing and managing care, as everyone also knows, can be verydifficulttocontrol, and the task of allocating the resources necessary to an effective infrastructure of care is one that the current cartel-like system is not doing very well.
As far as targeting parents goes, it is all very well to try to target the parents of young children to try to get them to do things in different ways, but it is verydifficult satisfactorily to punish parents who won't keep control of their children.
Of course, Musharraf has a very valid explanation that it's difficulttocontrol these tribal areas which are not used to having any sort of government control.