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Gadani yard turns into death trap for hapless workers
KARACHI: Seemingly unaware of the high health risks involved in his job, 21-year-old Muhammad Saleem, a welder at the Gadani ship-breaking yard, prefers to do his job and not ask too many questions.
But there are many who cannot continue to ignore the string of deaths at the Gadani ship breaking yard, an important source of raw material for the steel making industries of Karachi and beyond.
Over the past two months, four (…)

Channel 4 News, 23 April 2009

Mr. Advani has been calling Manmohan Singh as the weakest Prime Minister for quite some time. Recently Manmohan Singh, decided to hit back and he reminded the nation about the role of Advani in Kandhar episode, Babri demolition and Gujarat violence. Sonia Gandhi’s response to Advani’s barbs was at deeper level as she called Advani and most of BJP leadership as ’slave of RSS’ (Bidar, Karnataka 15th April) This jolted the BJP leadership which gave some weak mumbled response. BJP-RSS (…)

Metro Morning, CBC, 23 April 2009

From: Lila Thadani Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:28 PM Subject: Please wake up sisters, Nafisa Shah and Busha Gohar To: Nafisa Shah , Busha Gohar
[This letter is being copied (bcc) to Women Activists and members of the press, whom we hope will continue to ask you questions. We are not certain about the correctness of the email addresses of our two parliamentarians. In case the addresses below have been superseded, please forward this letter to the current addresses or send it to them by (…)