Faisalabad Ka Mazdoor Tabqa Darbadar Hukoomat Se Reham Ki Appeal

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00:00Assalam-o-Alaikum sir, how are you?

00:02I am fine.

00:04Are you also a labourer?

00:06Yes, I am a labourer.

00:08That's great. How long have you been doing this?

00:10I have been doing this for 45 years.

00:14Oh, 45 years.

00:16My father got sick.

00:18And when he got sick,

00:20he couldn't work.

00:22So he left me to study.

00:24And I started doing this.

00:26And you have been doing this since then?

00:28Yes, I have been doing this for 45 years.

00:30So in 45 years,

00:32as I asked the old man,

00:34you are the founder of this industry,

00:36in terms of your skills,

00:38and your experience.

00:40So in 45 years,

00:42how many times have you seen this situation?

00:44I have never seen such a situation.

00:46The way it is now.

00:48And it was the job of the rulers

00:50to take care of the poor.

00:52When Hazrat Umar said,

00:54a dog and a goat died

00:56because of hunger,

00:58Umar asked,

01:00where are our rulers sleeping?

01:04They don't care about the people.

01:06They don't care about the people.

01:08They don't care about the people.

01:10They will care about the people

01:12on the Day of Judgement.

01:14And they will be held accountable.

01:16When it comes to the owners and the labourers,

01:18they should give relief to the owners

01:20and take care of the labourers.

01:22They don't care about the owners.

01:24They don't care about the owners.

01:26They send them so much money.

01:28What should they do?

01:30They turn off the power.

01:32After a year,

01:34our labour has not increased

01:36even by 4-5 years.

01:40The owners say,

01:42we increase the labour every year.

01:44They are lying.

01:46They are lying.

01:48They say,

01:50if we find out that he is a labourer,

01:52we won't keep him.

01:54They don't even let us talk to him.

01:56They try to turn off the fan

01:58when it is hot.

02:00They say,

02:02why are you doing this?

02:04Let us use the fan.

02:06They don't even let us talk.

02:08They don't even let us talk.

02:10What is the situation at home?

02:12What is the situation at home?

02:14The situation at home is that

02:16our house is on rent

02:18and we are not being paid for 3 months.

02:20We have told them

02:22that if they don't pay us,

02:24they can throw our stuff outside.

02:26They are lying to themselves.

02:28Do people come to you

02:30and ask for help

02:32like your juniors?

02:34Yes.

02:36When they work with us,

02:38they say,

02:40if you talk about labour,

02:42we will fire you.

02:44Do the owners tell you

02:46not to talk about labour?

02:48If we have to do it,

02:50we will fire you.

02:52We will fire you.

02:54We won't hire you.

02:56The situation is like this.

02:58What should the labourers do?

03:00Where should they raise their voice?

03:02Who should they tell?

03:04May Allah make it easy.

03:06How are you?

03:08Are you doing the same work?

03:10Yes.

03:12How long do you work?

03:1414 to 15 hours.

03:1614 to 15 hours.

03:18How much do you earn per month?

03:2034,000 to 35,000 per month.

03:2214 to 15 hours.

03:24Do you manage?

03:26It depends on Allah.

03:28How much is the bill?

03:30It is around 12,000 to 13,000 per month.

03:32It is a regular bill.

03:36Gas bill is around 7,000 to 8,000 per month.

03:38Do you own a house?

03:40No, it is on rent.

03:42How much is the rent?

03:44It depends on Allah.

03:46How much food do you eat?

03:48How much food do I eat?

03:50It depends on the labourers.

03:52It depends on the labourers.

03:54If we pay the electricity bill,

03:56it is on rent.

03:58If we pay the electricity bill,

04:00it is on rent.

04:02The ration bill is around

04:04one week per month.

04:06The remaining three weeks

04:08are for electricity bill,

04:10gas bill and rent.

04:12I have no money.

04:14I have no money.

04:16My son is 7 years old.

04:18He has not gone to school.

04:20He must be thirsty.

04:22He is thirsty.

04:24He is a man.

04:26He is a man.

04:28He is 7 years old.

04:30The reason is that

04:32he has no money to go to school.

04:34He has no money.

04:36He is not getting up.

04:38He has no money.

04:40I have heard people talking about the pain in their eyes, the condition of their homes.

04:48You are leading all these workers. What is the situation now? I can see darkness ahead.

04:55The industry is running in 18 sectors of Faisalabad.

04:59If you take out the ratio of Faisalabad's crime per day,

05:03on a daily basis, there are 8 to 10 cases per day in every police station.

05:07If I go to the factory area of Thana Thikri,

05:10I will tell you that in the last three months, 12 crore rupees have been looted.

05:14How many workers have been killed, police officers have been killed.

05:17People have come to take away.

05:19Now when this fire breaks, it will become like Bangladesh.

05:22We do not want to make Bangladesh.

05:24But here an environment has been created like Bangladesh,

05:27which is Pakistan's Manchester,

05:29where there is an industry that employs lakhs of workers,

05:31which is a small small industry.

05:33You give subsidies to big contractors.

05:35If you do not give subsidies to the small industry that employs lakhs of people,

05:38then it will not develop.

05:40There is no kind of subsidy for this industry.

05:43This small industry is being subsidized by big exporters.

05:48They are being subsidized for 1.5 million rupees.

05:50They are being subsidized for 17 million rupees.

05:53They are being subsidized by big exporters.

05:55They are being subsidized by sugar mill associations.

05:57You are threatening that we will not run sugar mills.

06:00Because our sugar has not been exported.

06:02So threats are being made from all sides.

06:04But the agenda of the IIMF, the loan taken by the IIMF,

06:07does it apply to these streets?

06:09Now look at the condition of these streets where we live,

06:11who are paying electricity bills,

06:13and all that we earn is going into electricity bills.

06:15Our children are staying away from education.

06:17The state bill of 1973 was made,

06:19in which Article 3, 37 and 38,

06:21in which it was clearly stated that the state is responsible for education, health and employment.

06:25Yes.

06:26But today here...

06:27Half of these workers are not able to send their children.

06:29To make that bill, workers,

06:31farmers have made sacrifices.

06:33So now the decision is...

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