Daughter For Sale!

For ages 15-19
The purpose of this editorial is to explain that selling individual, especially those of kin, is wrong no matter the financial problems in the family.

This article displays clear recollections of the situation between Rafiq Qureshi and his nine year old daughter by providing quotes from him and reporters that have interviewed him. The author had no bias and no obvious opinion on the matter. This allows the reader to decide with full discretion if the situation is right or wrong without the author's influence.

Personally, it's not exactly the fact that he tried to sell his daughter because it happens all over world whether or not we like to admit, but his complete denial of doing it somewhat trails down the road of unethicality. The author states that a reporter from the weekly tabloid of World, disguised as a wealthy Arab sheikh, met with Qureshi to offer money for his daughter. 'Hypocrisy' is definitely an understatement for this situation.

The author also states that Qureshi was complaining about the little money his daughter's movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' pulled in for him and his family. Whether or not the author added this in the article to appeal to readers' emotions is beyond me, but this is not a good reason to sell a human being. Sure, money is hard to get no matter where a person is, but there are different and more ethical ways of doing it. Qureshi's ex-wife, on the other hand, didn't seem too happy in finding out the plans he had for their daughter by bluntly saying "I did not believe he would actually agree to it". It seems like she is the only logical one so far.