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Without Papers: Ghost Lives Of Millions Of Pakistanis

Teacher Nazia Hussain (L) and her class at a government school in southwestern Punjab province (Credit: AFP)

Ahmed Raza is invisible in the eyes of his government, unable to study or work because, like millions of other Pakistanis, he lacks identification papers.

In the South Asian nation of more than 240 million people, parents generally wait until a child begins school at the age of five to obtain a birth certificate, which is required for enrolment in most parts of Pakistan.

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