Child made me cry

by Iqra Riaz (Pakistan)

I didn't expect to find Pakistan

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About two month ago i was travelling with my friends and family to Lahore .It was a pre planned trip. We went for lahore about 6: 00 Am .the weather was clean and sunny . We were active , everyone was happy and enthusiastic. We took our breakfast from a local hotel, but the breakfast was too much tasty .The environment was also close to nature , on one side of the table there was a kitchen, where people were working and waiters took their orders .we all enjoyed this alot .Then my father gave the bill and tip to the waiter and then we moved towards our destination. My friends were very happy because we were travelling with each other .on our way to lahore from Faisalabad lots of beautiful scenery came which includes fields , buffalo and villages with greenery. Everyone was enjoying the music and some of them were dancing , the mototway road was clear and clean , and there was no rush there. On the way when we saw a man with ice cream we took ice cream and enjoyed it . On the way A river flows known as RAVI RIVER . My mother took with her our lunch which my father and mother had cooked. Nearly about 2. Hours and 35 minutes we reached at the toll plaza of Lahore .we were very happy some of my siblings were sleeping, nearly every one was half slep except me and my father , as i was sitting on the mirror side i was looking at the nature and vehicles which were passing , sometimes it came green fields and sometimes came barren lands , but soon we reached at lahore , high buildings were visible with sign boards and lED's . Then we were on the road which was leading toward Lahore fort where we want to go .when my father was taking U - turn i saw a child sitting on the pavement with a man , the age of the child was nearly about 9 to 10 years , while the man was of 45 of age . I was looking towards them , the man was holding the hand of the child and was searching for something , on the roads of Lahore there are usually lots of traffic that's why I came such time to look at them .the man was looking like a drug addict because of his appearance and physical condition. That man got the injection and start injecting that child of only 10 years , and child as a child was looking at him .i looked this with all my possible effort , even though my friends asked me what Happened?? At that time we were away from that road where that child was sitting.i was amazed and shocked and was thinking about the harsh reality of life and upcoming days of that child who was only 10 years old , but someone was injecting him with the poison . Then i told my father to stop them and he turned the car to that place , the road was blocked , my mother was also saying that we should report that man , about 15 to 20 minutes were spent on that road .and when we reached at that place , there was no child and no man .i was depressed and whole family was also depressed .Then we asked different people about them but no told us about them . Then we moved toward our destination, after few hours everyone was enjoying except me vecause the inoccence of that child was making me frigid . I was speechless and continuously thinking about that incidence .Everyone was coming to me and then i went with them but mentally I was retarded. I tried a lot to get rid of it but this incidence at time had a great impact on my mentality .At lahore fort we took different pictures with foreigners but my face was not fresh brcause i was the only eye witness of the cruelty of that man .That's why i was depressed, my friends tried to convince me that , might that person was not injecting the child , but i denied all the time . I never enjoyed that trip as much as i was expecting because of the wildest incidence.