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Iqbal Masih

1983 - 1995

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Iqbal Masih (Punjabi: اقبال مسیح; 1 January 1983 – 16 April 1995) was a Pakistani Christian child labourer and activist who campaigned against abusive child labour in Pakistan. He was assassinated on 16 April 1995. On 23 March 2022 (Pakistan Day), he was posthumously awarded the Tamgha-e-Shujaat by the government of Pakistan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iqbal Masih is the 605th most popular social activist (up from 632nd in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 110th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Iqbal Masih ranks 605 out of 840. Before him are Luisa Cuesta, Hu Jia, Salih Mahmoud Osman, Sylvia Rivera, Shin Dong-hyuk, and Anna Aloys Henga. After him are Martin Luther King III, Dolores Huerta, Yelizaveta Chaikina, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Lida Heymann, and Neerja Bhanot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Iqbal Masih ranks 146. Before him are Clint Dempsey, Yuri Zhirkov, Tatsuya Kamohara, Michael Krohn-Dehli, Nelson Haedo Valdez, and Steven Sotloff. After him are Matt Sydal, Leeteuk, Mika Nakashima, Lisandro López, Daniel Ek, and Emmanuel Eboué. Among people deceased in 1995, Iqbal Masih ranks 293. Before him are Víctor Peralta, Salil Chowdhury, George Stibitz, Bruno Junk, George Woodcock, and T. Keith Glennan. After him are Stig Sjölin, Boris Gurevich, Rauf Hajiyev, Art Mollner, Franco Bertinetti, and Patsy Ruth Miller.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Iqbal Masih ranks 114 out of 217. Before him are Manorama (1926), Parveen Shakir (1952), Balraj Sahni (1913), Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929), Ali Zafar (1980), and Qandeel Baloch (1990). After him are Noor Jehan (1926), Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950), Prem Chopra (1935), Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), and Abdul Hamid (1927).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Iqbal Masih ranks 6. Before him are Bacha Khan (1890), Bhagat Singh (1907), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Guru Ram Das (1534), and Asma Jahangir (1952). After him are Mukhtar Mai (1972), and Jalila Haider (1988).

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