In a utopian world, there's won't be any child labour, only kids learning how to play, learn and enjoy life.

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But this isn't utopia, and mankind isn't left with any angels. In what will shock the bejesus out of you, a 13-year-old boy in Pakistan had to pay a frightful price for asking for his salary.

The incident happened in Pakistan's Punjab, in Sheikhupura village, some 50 kilometres from Lahore, where the right hand of this 13-year-old was mercilessly chopped with a fodder cutting machine for demanding the salary.

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Jannat Bibi, the boy's mother claimed that Irfan used to work for Shafqat Bibi, for a salary of Rs 3,000.

But Shafqat did not find him laborious enough for the period he was working for her, and when he demanded that he be paid, she cut his hand in anger.

The boy has now been shifted to a local hospital and the police have registered a case against the people involved.

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The incident is wrong on many levels. To begin with, a child of that age should not be working at all and the government in the area must ensure that.

Secondly, let's accept for a minute that he was, in order to make ends meet, but what he faced was an absolute disregard of humans rights.