<p>Every morning, 17-year-old Irfan Manzoor crosses an empty ground in the rustic neighborhood north of Punjab, Pakistan, walking from his tented home to attend a school for poor Gypsies in Lahore five hours a day.</p> <p>"My father, a Muslim, wanted me to beg, but God rebukes those who extend a hand for money," the ninth-grade student told Global Sisters Report. "I want to study further and work in an office with dignity."</p>
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Car bomb blast in Pakistani city kills five
Taliban claims responsibility for the attack on a hotel in a Catholic area of Quetta where the Chinese ambassador was staying
Volunteers carry an injured victim on a stretcher at the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta in Pakistan s restive Balochistan province on April 21. (Photo: Banaras Khan/AFP)
Church officials in Pakistan s restive Balochistan province have condemned a suicide bombing in Quetta in which five people died and more than 12 were injured.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack on a meeting of senior Pakistani officials in the Serena Hotel on April 21.