Balochistan. A shocking report has come to the fore regarding the poor laborers working in the coal mines of Pakistan. As reported by The Baloch Circle, poor laborers working in the coal mines of Balochistan are losing their lives every day due to lack of facilities.
288 laborers lost their lives due to lack of facilities
It has been told in the report that in the year 2022, 288 people lost their lives in accidents in Pakistan, out of which 166 people were from Balochistan. During the first five months of this year, there were 18 accidents in the coal mines of Balochistan, in which 24 workers died.
Human Rights Commission had expressed concern
In early 2023, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan expressed concern in its ‘Fact Finding Report’ regarding accidents in the mines of Balochistan in the year 2022. They demanded that the central government should ensure that the federal government protects the workers. apply international law to
More than 3800 coal mines are present in Balochistan
According to the report of All Pakistan Labor Federation, there are currently more than 3800 coal mines active across Balochistan, with more than 100,000 workers extracting more than ten million tonnes of coal every year. More than 50 percent of the total coal mined in Pakistan on an annual basis is mined from Balochistan alone.
According to The Baloch Circle, it is a matter of grave concern that hundreds of workers lose their lives every year due to lack of adequate facilities in these mines and their entire families also suffer, but they say that the lives of the poor is of no importance to anyone. It doesn’t matter.
two laborers trapped in coal mine
Let us tell you that two laborers Sharaf Khan and Abdul Baki are trapped in a 900 feet deep mine for the last one and a half month in Miraj area of Dukki district located in the north-east of Balochistan and have not been able to come out yet. His brother Abdul Baseer says that the world and the media have also forgotten the pain and suffering of his brother and cousin who were stranded on May 4. They are trapped underground, but we who live on earth have no peace either.
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