Clean sweep
On May 11, in Karachi
From Clifton to Korangi
From Gulshan to Malir
From rich to poor
From old to young
Everyone I met and spoke to
Voted for Imran Khan!
My social circle is a sample of Karachi
My photo from NADRA database will be on the voters’ list!!! No!! Had been hiding my CNIC for this day? :-/
What a III Grader thinks of Imran Khan
“Imran Khan will make everything right, and he’ll catch thieves, and if a child hasn’t completed his homework, Imran Khan will complete it, and he’ll share his lunch with me, and he’ll solve the electricity issue in my house, and he’ll tend to the ill and make them well. Oh, and my papa’s car breaks down every day; Imran Khan will fix it too.”
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/11hthuc
Every now and then a person comes along who just makes you look bad. No matter who you are, or what you do… you could be a doctor who corrects cleft palates on Third World babies for free, it doesn’t matter. Iqbal Masih was that kind of person… by the age of 10.
Indentured at the age of five to a carpet factory, Iqbal was chained to his loom and forced to work 12 hours a day. And when he tried to escape, he was beaten. And because the carpet bosses didn’t feed him well enough, he never grew. And he shuffled when he walked, no doubt because he spent his childhood on his feet and chained to a freaking loom. Life was hard for Iqbal.
Yet, at the age of 10, the pint-sized Cool Hand Luke escaped and joined the Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan, a group that was dedicated to freeing child slaves.
In two years, Iqbal liberated 3,000 kids from slavery.
Iqbal didn’t just join the BLLF, he pretty much became their spokesman. Which is a pretty audacious thing to do, when you think about it. While most of us would have just sauntered back home and caught up on eating and Wii, this kid actually went back into trenches, even disguising himself and sneaking into factories to interview kids about their working conditions.
In fact, Iqbal was so effective in his crusading that Pakistani carpet exports actually dropped by over $200,000,000 during the years he worked for the BLLF. Sadly, it also made him a high profile target of the alleged “carpet mafia” and the boy was murdered at the age of 13 in 1995. Which means that he helped liberate all those kids in just two short years of work.
SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=255087084635187&set=a.176553672488529.55681.176238955853334&type=1&theater
