Owais Mughal
I’ll let our readership contemplate on the mechanics of this photo. Who is controlling whom and how?
Photo is courtesy of Mr. Hanif Khattak who is a photo journalist associated with the News International. Photo was taken on August 8, 2007 in Islamabad.
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hai talkh bohat bandai mazdoor kai auqat….
this shows the oor economical conditions of a Pakistani labourers…
did jinnah make Pakistan for such poverty…..
60 years ..pakistan was made ..bankrupted …state by polticians ..like Bainazir..and bank debt eaters…Feudal Lords..Mullahs..and above all Millitary Generals..DHA princes ..who have now eyes on Gwadar Golden lands …as in future..it will be Dubai of Paksiatn….
but still..but still….
despite of all hardships…the man is working with his own hands…with his head stood high…where nobody from 160 millions will ever dare to say a single racist word to him..neither he will ever hear this voice ..go paki…go to your land….
he has kept his ego alive…his Khudi..Izzat-e-Nafs..will not be mudslingered….
as iqbal have said….Khudi is the supreme thing which a nation or individual keep..and without it…nothing is left ….
Yes ..he is por..but he is Khuddar ..earning his own money..without hearing any filthy racist remarks..as usually people living in West experience but still ??????????????????????????????????
We have got the most hard working people in our country but they never get the right money inreturn to their hard work.
I will always wait for a day when our labour force dont have to go abroad for jobs.
When will our poor get relief, even the party that was created in their name PPP by Bhutto saab has deserted them thanks to the daughter of the east.
A few days back, I came across this picture too. It somehow left me speechless. We can clearly see the age of this man and yet the hardships he has to endure. Carrying the vehicle’s structure on a cart is no easy job with the sun blazing and a path that’s long enough.
I wish and pray that if not all Pakistanis, at least a certain ratio above 65 or 70 can get some social benefits, to survive remaining years with no hardship endurance.
On the surface it is just an old man taking the shell of a car to the scrapyard, but deep inside the picture says a thousand words. Words about the lack of technology, about the plight of the poor and the weak in Pakistan, about the hard life of a Pakistani laborer but most of all, about the dignity and pride of a hard working man who is pulling the weight with his head held high.
Amazing picture that can say so much.