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...