The wire services regularly send images to their member papers that feature the phrase "daily life." They send them from such places as India, Thailand, Japan, China, the Philippines, Syria, Nepal, Britain, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. With the exception of just a couple, the images in this post feature daily life in Pakistan by Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen. The images document what we might call in newspaper terminology, "slice of life" photography - ordinary daily scenes that give us a glimpse of something that we might not ordinarily be able to experience. The images, again with a few exceptions, focus on children. They are generally from Islamabad, Pakistan, or from a slum on the outskirts of the city. There wasn't much information or details supplied for captions. In this case, the adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" might just be the most apropos phrase.
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Pakistani children gather by a vendor on a bicycle selling balloons on the outskirts of Islamabad. | |
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Pakistani boy eats fresh corn and holds a balloon while standing in an alley of a poor neighborhood near Islamabad. |
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Pakistani school girl writes on a blackboard during an English class in an outdoor school in a slum near Islamabad. |
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Pakistani children play in a wooden cart in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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Pair of performers - a trained monkey and his owner - await customers on a roadside in Islamabad. |
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Afghan refugee girl walks through an alley of a slum heading back home on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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Pakistani girl Aysha Gulfeyaz, 3, drinks water from a hand pump near Islamabad. |
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Two Afghan refugee sisters and a Pakistani girl attend a daily class to learn how to read verses of the Koran, at a mosque in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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Pakistani girls arrange bricks while working in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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Pakistani Christian boys play games in a basement of their neighborhood, a slum near Islamabad. |
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Boys gather by a vendor selling tropical fish on his bicycle on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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A laborer transports the front portion of a van through his handcart on a road in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad. |
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Afghan refugee girl stands with others in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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Street barber (right) gives a haircut to a customer, reflected in a mirror, in Gujranwala, near Lahore, the nation’s second-largest city and a center of culture. |
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Pakistani youngsters, who sell shopping bags for a living, fight each other at a market in Islamabad. |
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Two Afghan refugee girls wash their laundry in a stream in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
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Pakistani Niaz Khan fixes a pipe with a tap to get water from a government funded water supply along a drain covered with garbage at a slum area in Karachi. |
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Pakistani children eat their lunch on the eve of the World Food Day in a slum in Karachi. |
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Pakistani people receive their donated food in a food distribution center on the eve of the World Food Day in Lahore. |
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Pakistani girl waits for customers as she sells tomatoes in a market on the eve of the World Food Day in Lahore. |
Source: www.boston.comwww.blogs.sacbee.comwww.newshopper.sulekha.com
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