Beautiful handmade carpets from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan are admired all over the world. Many [1] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical of these traditional wool or silk carpets are sold every year . Everyone knows what they look like and perhaps you even have one on the floor of your home . But have you ever stopped to think how these carpets are made? Who [2] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical the millions of tiny knots that make up a handmade carpet? Too often the sad answer to this question is very young children . Here is what happened to a young Pakistani boy called Iqbal Masih . Iqbal Masih was born in a poor Pakistani village . His family was so poor and his father needed money so badly that he decided to sell Iqbal to a carpet maker . He didn´t get much money , only a few rials , because Iqbal was only four years old! Young Iqbal´s [3] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical was long and hard . He and the other children had to work 16 hours a day , seven days a week . Their only breaks were to eat or to go to the [4] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical . The work damaged the children´s eyes and some of them became blind . To make sure that they didn´t escape , the factory owner chained the child workers to the carpet-making equipment . But after six years Iqbal somehow managed to escape . He went to the city of Lahore where he found safety with a group of people who are trying to prevent the employment of child workers . When Iqbal told his [5] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical story to journalists people in Pakistan were shocked . But what was really shocking was the fact that Iqbal´s story was not unusual; in fact , his story is [6] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical of what happens in many poor families there . A study of the problem found that the [7] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical number of young Pakistani children working long hours for no pay may be as high as 10 million! Iqbal´s story was [8] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical into many languages , and he became a voice for child workers everywhere . So because of Iqbal , people all over the world realize that even now in the [9] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical century , many children are made to work hard at a young age . In 1994 Iqbal was invited to the United States to receive the Reebok Human Rights Award for Youth in Action . He said he hoped to use the money to go to school and become a lawyer . But there is a sad ending to this story . Last week while Iqbal was bicycling near his village , someone shot him dead . Why? We don´t know , but perhaps a carpet factory owner was angry with him for telling the [10] terrible thousands ties timetable toilet total translated truth twentieth typical about child workers in Pakistan . --based on an article in Newsweek , May 1995   Name :