On April 16, 1995, Easter Sunday, a single shot from a 12-gauge shotgun claimed Iqbal Masih’s life in the village of Muritke near Lahore. Belonging to Pakistan's impoverished Christian minority, Iqbal ...

Directed by Shoaib Sultan and produced by Nighat Akbar Shah, a recent Instagram post revealed that upcoming film Gunjal is slated for a December 15 release. The post, which was shared in the grid by ...

Almost thirty years ago, a boy named Iqbal Masih was shot dead near Lahore. He was twelve, the age most children should be in school, not running from factory owners and debt collectors. Iqbal had ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced the recipients of the 2024 Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor, recognising outstanding efforts to eradicate the worst forms of child labour ...

Pakistan’s government has awarded one of its highest civilian awards to a Catholic carpet maker who was assassinated for advocating against child labor. President Arif Alvi conferred the ...

He was reaching for the comics one morning when he stumbled upon a tragic story, a 12-year-old, Iqbal Masih, has been killed on speaking about child labor rights. This was the fuel that started the ...

A slow-burning sensation commands one’s attention throughout Gunjal, a fictionalised telling of a real-life murder. Iqbal Masih was killed in cold blood at a plantation in his village Muridke ...

Italy's 'State-within-a-State' Body Worlds Exhibition Persecution of Christians In the Korean War The story of a Pakistani boy, Iqbal Masih, who was forced into bonded labour as a carpet weaver at the ...

The film is inspired, like the novel, by the true story of Iqbal Masih: he is sold for 16 dollars to a rug merchant and moneylender in Lahore, Pakistan. We have set the movie in Pandar, an imaginary ...