Camel Kids handed over to family |
PakTribune KARACHI, February 08 (Online): The two innocent camel jockey brothers, Mohammad Ashraf 7 and Mohammad Akram 5 years old, who returned to Pakistan a few days back from the United Arab Emirates, were handed over to their mother by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International.Two innocent brothers stayed in the UAE for more than two years where they were made to work as ‘Camel Jockeys’. On their arrival the Judicial Magisterial Court of Fareed Anwar Qazi, had given the boys in custody of Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, as their parents were yet to be located by the Trust at the time they returned home onboard. Talking to newsmen at the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International office, Ashraf said, “I had been riding the camels for two years and fell down several times and once sustained a serious injury”. Akram said, “Our employer used to beat me up on losing a race. Some time they used children for sex as well”. “We were supposed to made a very good food for camels but we were not allowed to even taste that food”, Akram said. “We were not allowed to sleep properly and not allowed to eat good food. We were living in a iron tents even in a hot temperatures of above 50 degree, some times blood comes out from our mouth and nose and some times from stomachs but no one to hear our hue and cry”, Akram added. “Ashraf said, “We had spent two years like hell as camel jockeys in a worst kind of circumstances we are unable to tell any one”. Halima wife of Sher Mohammad the mother of two camel jockeys who received her children at the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International office, said that “we are very poor and later lost my children. “My two children were kidnapped while they were playing out side their home in Rahim Yar Khan and more than two years passed when I was traced and informed by Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International that they found these children in UAE and brought them back”, said Halima. Halima said I saw my two children after a time of more than two years. She thanked ‘human rights angel’ Ansar Burney because of whom only she was able sees her children alive again. Vice Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, Syed Fahad Burney said that Ansar Burney is in on a trip of Arab and Middle East countries in search of 9 dead bodies of innocent Pakistanis to whom human smuggler agents drowned in the deep seawater near Dubai as well as he is also visiting Camel jockeys camps to find kidnapped children from these camps. “A group of six/seven camel-kids was also expected to arrive home soon”, Fahad Burney added. Press Back on your browser to Return
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