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 ...

Iqbal Masih was born in 1982 in Pakistan. At the age of four his father sold him as a slave to a carpet factory for 600 rupees—roughly 12 dollars—to pay for the wedding of his eldest son.

Cineuropa - the best of european cinemaThe 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 ...

D'Adamo's brief book, his first published in the U.S., packs an emotional punch in a novel also inspired by the life and work of Masih. Narrator Fatima is a bonded servant in a carpet factory in ...

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 ...

Just like Iqbal! Ja'Mia Craig At school we have been reading "Iqbal," a book about the inspiring Iqbal Masih of Pakistan. When he was only 4 years old, he was sold into slavery for $12.

Winter (Henri’s Scissors) continues her series of illustrated biographies with a two-in-one volume. One side memorializes Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy sold to the carpet industry to pay off his ...