Tag: Labourers

25 labourers abducted from Bannu

At least 25 labourers were abducted from Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday, police said. The police said the incident took place in...

10 people burnt in factory inferno

Ten people were burnt in a fire at a garment factory in the Township area.  According to officials, the garment factory, run by Khurram...

President pledges to give rights to labourers

President Asif Ali Zardari, reiterating government’s commitment to honour labour and working people and give them their due rights, has stated that the Pakistan...

Govt allocates Rs 4.1b for labourers’ healthcare

Minister Labour Punjab, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has said that the labour department would spend Rs 4.1 billion for the provision of healthcare facilities to...

Labourers slash their arms in protest against police

Three young labourers injured themselves badly after cutting their skin with blades in a protest outside Mozang Police Station after being disheartened by the...

Don’t worry, you are in safe hands: CM

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the labourers and workers were badly ignored during the 64 years history of the country but credit...

Demo with bodies staged at Super Highway

A demonstration with bodies of seven Pashtun labourers – killed by unidentified attackers in Turbat, Balochistan – was staged at the Super Highway on...

BLF kills seven labourers in Kechh

At least seven non-local labourers were killed by armed men in Kechh district, 1,050kms southwest of Quetta, on Tuesday in an attack claimed by...

Court sets 16 bonded labourers free

Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh on Tuesday ordered release of 16 poor people, including women and children, after recovering them from illegal custody of two...

Factory owner, three others booked for death of four labourers

The city police booked on Monday factory owner and his four employers for their alleged criminal negligence towards the safety and security of the...

34 labourers abducted from Bara

34 workers, including 30 coal miners and 4 road constructors, were abducted from the Kala Khel area of Tehsil Bara, according to media...

‘85 percent of KP labourers earning more than minimum wage’

Labourers are receiving their standard salary of Rs 7,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa only, Provincial Labor Minister Sher Azam Wazir said on Saturday. Speaking at...

Militants kill five labourers in Naushki

Unidentified militants opened fire on labourers building a mosque in a remote part of bordering district of Naushki, some 180 kilometres west of Quetta...

Court liberates 56 bonded labourers

Fifty-six labourers, including 13 women and 28 children, were released on Thursday after Samaro police recovered them on court orders from the agricultural farm...

Labourers demand raise in wages

Labourers have slammed the government severely for not increasing their minimum wages in the budget 2011-12, demanding raise as per the ratio of inflation....

‘Punjab govt to provide facilities to labourers’

The Punjab government will provide state-of-the-art health care facilities to labourers and new social security hospitals will be established and the existing hospitals will...

Fire from marriage fireworks engulfs two labourers

LAHORE - Two labourers Saleem and Asif died while another Asif sustained injuries from a fire which erupted in a foam godown when firework sparks from a marriage ceremony fell in the godown located in Shahdara late on Saturday night.
Javed was running a small unit in a two-story building in Qureshi Mohalla in Jiya Mosa where the labourer used to prepare foam.
Two houses away, Shahzad's mehndi was being held. Police said that Shahzad's friends and family members fired