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Now Iqbal is a debt slave and Ghullah is in charge of his life. The loan, or ‘peshgi’, is in Iqbal’s name. That means that Iqbal owes Ghullah the 5000 rupees (ca 600 US dollars) that his mother’s operation cost. When Iqbal gets home from the carpet factory in the evenings, he collapses into bed and falls asleep. Sometimes Ghullah wakes him around midnight. “We have a carpet delivery that has to be finished. Come on, get up.”
Iqbal worked in a carpet factory similar to this one, where young boys and girls work from morning to noon. ©WCPF
The peshgi debt means that Iqbal has to go with Ghullah, who drags a sleepy Iqbal through the narrow streets to the carpet factory. If Iqbal falls asleep at work, he is woken up by a blow from the carpet fork.
One day, a little boy in the carpet factory has a high fever. Ghullah, the owner, ties the boy’s feet together and hangs him upside down from the ceiling fan. “I’m the one who decides when you work,” roars Ghullah.In that instant, Iqbal decides he’s had enough. He starts to run away from work as often as he can. Iqbal and his friends take the chance to run away when Ghullah isn’t there. They play all day without worrying about what awaits them.
The next morning, Ghullah comes to their homes to get them. He’s furious, and he beats
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Iqbal Masih
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Iqbal Masih
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1983 - 1995
Iqbal Masih
Iqbal Masih (Punjabi: اقبال مسیح; 1 January 1983 – 16 April 1995) was a Pakistani Christian child labourer and activist who campaigned against abusive child labour in Pakistan. He was assassinated on 16 April 1995. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iqbal Masih has received more than 1,393,627 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Iqbal Masih is the 631st most popular social activist (down from 515th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 91st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Pakistani Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Iqbal Masih ranks 631 out of 840. Before him are Josefa Francisco, Ahed Tamimi, Luisa Cuesta, Eren Keskin, Maxim Martsinkevich, and Yolanda King. After him are Stanislav Markelov, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Razan Zaitouneh, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Marguerite Higgins, and Chen Guangcheng.