Zeinab Khan
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Zeinab Khan is an Islamabad-based student journalist. She has been a regular columnist for the national Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, since May 2008, covering stories ranging from social issues to political movements. This summer, she has been a contributing research analyst for the New York Times team in Pakistan, and is spending the month of August as a full-time intern at Dawn News (newspaper department). Zeinab is currently an A-levels student at Froebels International School in Islamabad.

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Pakistan's Kids Work As Garbage Collectors To Make Ends Meet

Posted August 6, 2009 | 15:12:31 (EST)

For eight-year-old Hayatullah and Abdul Haq, the day begins early in the morning. They take a wagon down to Islamabad from Faizabad (the main gateway between the twin Pakistani cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad), where they, amongst several others, begin their work rummaging and sifting through heaps of garbage, lying...

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