Thursday 27 November 2008

International Children's Day in Pakistan - Part I

A young boy busy in giving final touches to wooden furniture in Lahore instead of attending classes at a school.

Local children display broken pieces of a US missile in the rubble of a house hit by the missiles in Indi Khel village near Bannu, Pakistan on Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008. Children in the troubled regions of Pakistan are being constantly exposed to violence and attacks.

A schoolboy watches a cobbler repair his school bag at a roadside shop. More than 25 per cent of Pakistan's 150 million people live below the poverty line, despite the country's economy growing by 6.6 per cent last year, and 8.4 per cent in 2004-5, its highest in two decades


A boy carries wood on a bicycle too big for him to ride on in Islamabad.

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