Boy saved from being sold.

ISLAMABAD, June 04, 2009 (Balochistan Times) -- Chairman, Evacuee Trust Property Trust (ETPB) Syed Asif Hashmi has saved one Asif Ali, 19 years old from being sold out in return for Rs 4 lakh by announcing to provide financial assistance, bear educational expenses of his brothers and sisters and a job in government office. The young boys family was rendered homeless in the disastrous quake in Azad Kashmir four years back. One young boy aged 19 through an advertisement in media made offer to sell him in return for Rs 400,000. Chairman ETPB called this young boy and gave him money equal to preliminary estimate of construction of his house and took the responsibility for making payment of full cost of construction of house. He announced to give him government job immediately besides bearing the educational expenses of his four brothers and sisters. Asif Ali told that his home was destroyed in the devastating quake in village Kalar Khet, Muzaffarabad and his sister also died therein. I received aid from ERRA to the tune of Rs 125,000. I purchased a plot in Muzaffarabad where we are living in a tented house, he stated. Asif informed he had earlier announced to sell him out in 2008 and upon it president AJK Raja Zulqarnain and Ansar Burni, Chairman Burni Trust announced to bear the expenses of his family. But he was not provided any assistance.

(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)