Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has formed a 15-member steering committee to eliminate child labor in the province. Senior provincial minister Maryam Aurangzeb will chair the committee, with former MNA Mohsin Shah Nawaz Ranjha as co-chair. The move comes as part of a broader strategy to combat forced labor among children. The committee includes provincial […]
Child Labor
Pakistan’s brick workers need kilns reignited after floods
The brick kilns that dominate the small village of Aqilpur in Pakistan’s Punjab province now lie abandoned, furnaces extinguished by weeks of torrential rain that have caused the worst floods in the country’s history. Pakistan’s brick workers need kilns reignited after floods. Though the floods that engulfed Aqilpur and its surrounding fields have receded from […]