The reports for deliberate deformation of healthy babies given by the couples is very much there.
BBC News | South Asia | The rat children of Pakistan
The allegation that the children are being deformed using medieval contraptions is of course denied by those associated with the shrine in Gujrat. They say the rat-children are suffering from a genetic disease.
But Pakistan’s top genetic scientist, Dr Qasim Mehdi, who investigated this for three years, says this is medically impossible.
“In order for a disease to be genetically inherited you have to have a disease running in the family” he says.
“The point is that these children are not related to one another by any stretch of the imagination. Our investigation shows that they come from very different backgrounds, from very different families. So if there is no blood relationship between any two individuals and between even an incident where a father or son or uncle was involved, it cannot be a genetically inherited disease.”