Tag: Worker

Sabir Masih was a 17-year-old young man when I met him in 2005 in Lahore. The day was August 14, when bonded labourers working...

Federal minister for Production Anwar Ali Cheema has proposed to sell Pakistan Steel Mills as it is impossible to run it. Addressing a press...

A lady health worker lost her life while protesting against the non-payment of salaries at Bagh-e-Jinnah in Lahore on Saturday, a private TV channel...

Hundreds of cash-strapped Pakistan Railways (PR) employees on Saturday locked down offices of the divisional superintendent (DS), Lahore to protest against the non-payment of...

A prominent activist of PPP and nephew of founder member and PPP Senior Vice Chairman Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, Maj (r) Khalid Mahmood Shiekh announced...

Despite the fact that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been enjoying power in Punjab since April 2008, the party’s former PP-139 vice-president Sher...

An 18-year-old woman working for the Afghan govt was killed in Kandahar on Tuesday, hours after suicide bombers targeted a nearby NATO fuel depot,...

A rehab worker who was fired from the Betty Ford Centre in Los Angeles after an argument with Lindsay Lohan is suing the actress....

A political party worker was gunned down by unidentified gunmen in Orangi Town area here on Thursday, police said. According to the details, some...

GUJRANWALA - A Rescue worker was electrocuted while providing first aid to accident victims. As per details, a Rescue worker, Muhammad Asif, was busy providing aid to the passengers of a bus which had rammed into an electricity pole near Sadhu when he received an electric shock and died instantly. Muhammad Asif was performing his duty as emergency medical technician. The dead body was handed over to his family.

LAHORE - Sajida, 43, suffers from a heart disease, but does not have enough money for treatment. Not with pending financial expenditures that have to be done - expenditures that in her opinion have more priority - such as getting her daughters married. Sajida is a widow and along with her daughters works from home, making embroidery on clothes to sell them off through a middleman.
Unfortunately even after ten years of long hours of labour, she has not been able to save much. "I

RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian garbage worker may be sharing the Oscar stage with the likes of Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp next month after his starring role in a documentary on the transformative power of art. In Oscar-nominated 'Waste Land,' Sebastiao Carlos dos Santos and a group of other workers at a huge, ugly Rio de Janeiro landfill become muses for artist Vik Muniz, who shines a light on an activity society would rather ignore.
Using blown-up photographs of themselves and the

LAHORE - The PML-N foundation day turned into a boxing ring on Thursday when Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's son Hamza started punching a PML-N worker at the entrance of the ceremony at the Lahore Expo Centre.
The assault was so spontaneous that the worker could not be rescued and remained subject to the beating for a while. Nobody in the ceremony could comprehend the show of violence at the hand of Hamza Shahbaz, who is considered the heir to the PML-N throne.