Monday, 21 May 2012

Dwarfism Chitral boy’s education dream

CHITRAL, May 20: Ihteshamul Haq has a burning desire to go to school but the fear of being teased by students is forcing this markedly short boy from Warijun village of Upper Chitral to stay home.

The 15-year-old, whose height is 27 inches and weight seven kilogrammes, suffers from achondroplasia, a disorder of bone growth that causes dwarfism.

He told Dawn on Saturday that he had a very strong desire to be enrolled in a school but was out of school only because he feared that his

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