Ten-year-old boy Maharram came to work at a brick kiln in Dhamrai just one month ago. He will also have to work for the next five months—every day from 6 am to 8 pm, with only a short break for meals.
A laborer loads baked bricks into a cart at a brick kiln in Bath village near Lahore. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry) In 2018, Rafiq Gulzar took a peshgi — an advance payment against labor — from a bhatta ...