Two camel kids reunited with family |
The News (19/03/2006) KARACHI: Two underage children, enslaved as camel jockeys in the Middle East until recently, were reunited with their family due to the efforts of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust. Raza Ahmad, 8, and Naseer Ahmed, 10, were kidnapped some six years back and sold by their abductors to the camel owners in the Middle East. There, the children worked as child camel jockeys. Telling their horrific ordeal to the staff of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust, the children said they were forced to work up to 18 hours a day in the scorching heat of the desert, being electrocuted by their owners if they tried to sleep. They were fed just half a loaf of bread with water a day to keep their weight down for races, the kids said. The childrenís ordeal finally came to an end, when a team of the Welfare activists managed to rescue them from a camel farm in the Middle East and brought them to Pakistan. Finally the trust managed to locate the father of the children who was invited to the shelter house and given custody of the children. The father, Ahmed Ali, said his wife had lost her life due to the kidnapping of the children. Press Back on your browser to Return
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