The deaths of Christian sanitation workers in Pakistan are no longer isolated tragedies. They are part of a deadly pattern that exposes how poverty, discrimination, and official neglect continue to trap an entire community in dangerous work that many others refuse to do. In just over a month, at least six […]
At least six sanitation workers—fathers, sons, and breadwinners—have died in recent weeks in Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces, their lives cut short not by accident, but by a system that continues to send them into danger unprotected. Another worker still fights for his life, a grim reminder that these tragedies are […]
On the evening of April 17, 2023, as soon as Aijaz Ahmed, a sanitary worker of Rajanpur’s Rozhan Mazari tehsil, landed in the gutter, the poisonous gas of the sewerage line cut off his senses and he fell unconscious. After some time, his colleague Mohammad Hussain, who was outside the gutter, […]