September 20, 2008

Kidney for sale to the highest bidder

 
Muhammad Amjad, 34, takes out his rosary during a five-minute-break between shuttling customers around Lahore in his auto rickshaw.
 
These noisy machines, which can be heard from afar revving their four stroke engines like buzzing locusts, are usually decorated with brightly coloured motifs or poetic verses.
But the back of Amjad’s rickshaw, which he has been driving [...]