This is an AP news story. It shows Pakistani labor preparing for their dinner in their room in a Dubai labor camp. Photo is dated Feb 2008.
According to the news story:
Dubai’s astonishing building boom, which has made it one of the world’s fastest-growing cities, has been fueled by the labor of about 700,000 immigrants — almost all from poor, rural villages in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka
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HI ALL,
i left pakistan when i was 12, i am 46 now living in canada, came to sargodha, pakistan once, the human treatment, total dis-regards and any respect to fellow country men and women in pakistan was disgusting, so nerver mind arabs or anyone else, there’s more injutice and descrimination within pakistan.
Having lived and worked in seven countries in the Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Canada, England, and USA, I found the Middle East the worst place to live for a Pakistani. It does not matter if he is educated professional or a laborer, US citizen or Pakistani passport holder. Arabs, our so called muslim brothers, are the worst employers and practice discrimination that is unheard of in Europe or North America. Every person of Pakistani origin is a Maskeen/Rafiq and open to abuse.
Of couse the blame must rest on us and not on Arabs for keeping my fellow Pakistani origin people in inhuman conditions. We (not the government) have not been able to provide the Pakistani citizens the basic education which could prevent this bizzare happenings.
Sad but on the positive side, I would take this job in a second than having to collect trash in Pakistan or drive rickshaw in Pakistan - more money = more opportunities for future generations.
I salute our Arab brothers for giving us chances. They truly are generous.
Not all Pakistanis are living in such conditions in Middle East. Those with higher education and better jobs have better living conditions. Try asking how Pathani construction workers in Karachi survive.
This is a sign of failed policies that your unskilled labor has to travel thousands of miles to make just enough money to keep their families afloat.
As long as Pakistan is ruled by the waderas, pirs, and makhdooms, Arab states will get plenty of cheap labor, sex slave nannies and camel jockey children from us.
And God forbid we ever bring the discrimination and inhumane behavior reserved for immigrants in the Arab states to light. After all they are our “Muslim brothers” and part of one “Caliphate”.