The young Pakistani boy, fighter against the child labor all over the world.He received children’s honorary award for his struggle..He became a martyr,living life in a night mare.At the age of four his father sold him for twelve dollars to a carpet company.He became a slave and worked as slave till ten years old.he worked from early morning to night every day without any rest.At the age of ten he escaped from that factory and he under the shadow of Ehsan ullah khan the founder of bondage labor liberation front.He was suffered lot by that factory.he was verbally and physically abused.He worked twelve hours daily without any rest and he became very tired .He want to bend and take the work, thus his back became curved and his growth had stopped.After he escaped from that factory he came and joined to bondage labor liberation front.
He was born on April 16th 1982 in a small village muridke outside Lahore in Pakistan father Saif mahsin abandoned the family.His mother was working as a house cleaner and with that income she knows that she cant feed her children and whenever his mother went to work his older sister take care of him.He doesn’t know the difficulties of the family and every time he was playing .he changed his life at the age of four.
His brother got married at age of four and there was no money to spend for his brother marriage according to Pakistanis they have a lot of money to make the marriage party successful.so that his father have no such money to make that party successful.For that purpose his farther received money from the carpet weaving business man .After that his father have no money to pay the debt to the business man.Iqbal was sold into bondage for that family.He was working without the wages.Whenever he do any mistakes that time he was given punishment with the loan.Thus the loan become twice and the employer added the interest with that loan.His family received more money from that man as Iqbal working there .Iqbal want to pay for that loan also.At the age of ten the loan become 13000.The children who are working with him were also having the same situation.When they have daydream the guard will come and will give punishment .They will beat them with the sharpen tools that they used to cut the threads.after working six years he heard about the BLLF that were helping the children.He escaped from there and attended the meting at that time he released that the Pakistani government banned the all outstanding loan taken from everybody.Then he meet the leader and told all about his sufferings.
After he became free he was schooled at the Lahore by the BLLF and he worked very hard so and he completed the studies of four years to two years .He became the leader of many firms.that type of skill was found in Iqbal by the society.Thus he visited other children who were suffering from this type of labor works.he took that risk very sincerely and he made free hundreds of children.
A book was published called Iqbal which shares the story of his legacy.He was fatally shot at Murdike when he was from the american trip on April 16th 1995. At that time he was twelve years old.Some of them says that he murdered by a farmer,some says that the carpet-employer murdered him.Some of them says that he was murdered by his influence over bonded labor.
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