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They may be small but they dream big

Afghan children pose for a picture. PHOTO: AFP

Afghan children pose for a picture. PHOTO: AFP

Afghan children pose for a picture. PHOTO: AFP

Students study in a religious class at a mosque in the outskirts of Islamabad. PHOTO: REUTERS

A man carries his children in a cloth bag in Nowshera district. PHOTO: ONLINE

Young boys hang upside down on the monkey bars at an orphanage in Islamabad. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Young boys play with a hen outside their home in a slum in Islamabad. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young girl gazes outside a hole in a house that was damaged by the floods that swept almost all the houses away in her village in Swat. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A little girl is wrapped in blanket to battle the cold while her father and siblings huddle behind her. The slum that the family had called home for years was torn down by the Capital Development Authorities, leaving them without a roof amidst the few belongings they have. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Young boys at a small roadside cafe pose for a photograph. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

School children run home excitedly after being dismissed for the day near E-11. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young boy applies surma to his eyes. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young girl looks after her siblings with little to keep them warm despite the cold outside Bari Imam. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A little boy poses for a photograph after pondering over what to buy with his pocket money at a small makeshift shop selling sweets near Sitara Market in Islamabad. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Young boys celebrate the end of their examinations from a high vantage point as their friends ride their bicycles past them to get home. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Children attend Quran classes at an orphanage in Islamabad. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A little girl sits atop a cart selling sweets assisting her young uncle who is a vendor outside Bari Imam. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young boy sits on a charpoy outside his home in the slum as his mother combs his hair. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A little girl watches the wreckage of the Bhoja airliner that crashed in her village in the outskirts of Rawalpindi. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young boy washes a car for money near Bari Imam. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young explorer uses his cell phone for light to inspect the insides of the Allah Ditta caves near Golra on a school trip. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A baby naps in a makeshift hammock in a slum area in Islamabad. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young boy and girl are bathed with the holy waters of Panja Sahib during the Besakhi festival in Panja Sahib. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Eleven-year-old Miramzaadi swims in a mud hole on a hot summer’s day near a traffic signal where she and other young afghan children wash car windows for a living. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A boy gets a haircut seated atop a freezer while the others wait at an orphanage in Islamabad. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Muhammad Hanif, 16, shows off his cartwheel to his family members. Hanif, who has polio, works as a day laborer. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Young girls push each other to get to the front of the line at the food queue in Bari Imam. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

A young girl gets a makeover from her mother during the Besakhi festival in Panja Sahib, Hasan Abdaal. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

Snapshots of children from in and around Pakistan.

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Patriot

Jun 1, 2012 - 5:10PM

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Beauty!
Love these pics!
Thanks for showing the real Pakistan for a change.

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SA

Jun 2, 2012 - 8:54AM

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Amazing <3

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shahid abbasi

Jun 2, 2012 - 12:51PM

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They are our nation builder.We should support them in every field of life.They are real piller of our nation.

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kamran muhammad

Jun 3, 2012 - 10:59PM

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Ullah make their dreams true.

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zeist

Jun 4, 2012 - 1:50PM

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love these pics and as’” patriot said.. this is the real pakistan.. look everyone and weep … not the shallow moneyed ”fashionable,elitist” slideshows that you have also shown.. yes that is pakistan too.. cannot believe there is such discrepancy in pakistan… that is why i said earlier look and weep and feel embarrased that we have allowed this ( the discrepancy) to thrive—hope these babies and kids have a pakistan to grow up in—while we parade and expose our bodies and hug each other–as in these pics–who knows how the majörity lives or rather how we ignore the sorry state of our compatriots

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