By Aftab Alam
Published in the News, Islamabad on 13th July, 2010
Striding steadily under the heavy load they carry on their heads, two young girls cast a blank glance on the photographer who tries to capture their graceful gait under the bundle of wood for fueling their stoves. The expressionless faces lack the innocence that has been taken away due to continuous and uninterrupted exposure to poverty that is there since the time they were born.
Although they might be stranger to the word ‘fashion’, still they have elegance and grace in the way they are dressed. They still manage to showcase whatever is within their reach – trying to match bangles, nose pins, and dresses.
The barrenness of the background is also complementing the withered fortunes they have been eternally awarded by the deciders of their fate. Who is to be blamed? No one except us! Why we? Because we negate the basic commandments of God to share with our fellow humans what we have been blessed affluently and they are deprived.
This photograph pictures the heart of the Capital of Pakistan where every common man is enjoying the basic rights to some extent, or at least it is claimed so. Just imagine the deplorable plight of the poor people who are abiding in the hard-to-reach, far off places of the country where they have to live below the line of poverty.
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