There is another less dramatic, but dark, side of the South Asian nation that rarely captures attention - the large number of impoverished people forced to endure horrible conditions at work to survive.įifteen thousand of them risk their lives every day, tearing down ships at Gaddani beach on the Arabian Sea coast, a 10 km-long death trap.
Pakistan is full of dangers, with tens of thousands of victims of suicide bombings, sectarian violence and ethnic bloodshed which make big headlines across the world. We are treated like dogs and the owners don’t care if we die.” “The next morning we had to work as if nothing had happened. His face was bloated, purple and green,” said Mohammad Saleem, one of the workers who found Hassan. “A steel section was cut out from the ship and when it fell into the sea, light came into the hull and we saw Mehdi’s body. Unable to move all night with broken bones, and with no one around to help, he choked to death on toxic fumes. He suddenly slipped and fell to the floor in the dark. Laborers pull an iron rope before separating a portion of a ship into scrap metal at Gaddani ship breaking yard, about 60 km (37 miles) from Karachi, November 25, 2011.
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