PESHAWAR, Oct 5 The Bhatta Khisht Labour Union (BKLU) has said that more than 150,000 workers, affiliated with the brick-kiln industry, were not provided with healthcare and educational facilities as ...

A laborer loads baked bricks into a cart at a brick kiln in Bath village near Lahore. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry) In 2018, Rafiq Gulzar took a peshgi — an advance payment against labor — from a bhatta ...

LAHORE: “Give us social security – it is our right. Ensure enforcement of minimum wage and we won’t need incentives to send our children to school,” Bhatta Mazdoor Union leaders said at a protest ...

Feeling the heat:, Raju Khushwaha and his wife Sushila Bai have worked at the brick kiln for 18 years Darkness falls on Rajauli village, but for Raju Kushwaha there is no difference between the ...