Kooza Baanday is a mountainous area through Saidu Sharif, on the way to Seegram.
People in the villages of Seegram travel down to Kooza Baanday shopping for meat and other necessities.
While passing by, we saw a little school boy carrying school bag on his back,
waving his hand to stop,
he wanted a ride to his home on the way.
Anwar, the driver, let the boy sit next to him and dropped him off after five minutes as the boy pointed to a corner on the road.
I asked the little boy in Pashto, "ista naom saday?" (what's your name?).
He replied, "Hazrat Ali."
Then I asked his permission to take his photo (in Urdu and Anwar translated in Pashto). He jumped off the rickshaw and stood straight like an obedient student.
Then we saw many young boys requesting for a ride to their home.
This is how the little children here go to school and return home, either they have to walk for at least an hour or they run after trucks, vans or rickshaws requesting for a ride. The name of Nawaz Sharif and Ameer Maqam can be seen wall-chalked everywhere in Swat Valley.
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People in the villages of Seegram travel down to Kooza Baanday shopping for meat and other necessities.
While passing by, we saw a little school boy carrying school bag on his back,
waving his hand to stop,
he wanted a ride to his home on the way.
Anwar, the driver, let the boy sit next to him and dropped him off after five minutes as the boy pointed to a corner on the road.
I asked the little boy in Pashto, "ista naom saday?" (what's your name?).
He replied, "Hazrat Ali."
Then I asked his permission to take his photo (in Urdu and Anwar translated in Pashto). He jumped off the rickshaw and stood straight like an obedient student.
Then we saw many young boys requesting for a ride to their home.
This is how the little children here go to school and return home, either they have to walk for at least an hour or they run after trucks, vans or rickshaws requesting for a ride. The name of Nawaz Sharif and Ameer Maqam can be seen wall-chalked everywhere in Swat Valley.
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| a boy named Hazrat Ali in Kooza Baanday |
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| school girls in Kooza Baanday |
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| school girls in the area of Kooza Baanday, Swat Valley, Pakistan |
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