29-01-2005

Pakistani Children Stars Beat Disability

via www.gg2.net

UNLIKE many children their age, 12-year-old Tariq Hussain Bacha and Zeeshan, 11, have never heard of pop stars Britney Spears or Avril Lavigne. But the two boys from Pakistan`s tough, tribal badlands are now child stars themselves, after selling thousands of albums of traditional songs at home and abroad. And their lives could hardly be more different to those of their pampered Western counterparts. Little Zeeshan is confined to a wheelchair…