Islamabad, July 17 -- Pakistan is facing criticism over the safety and treatment of sanitation workers after a series of fatal workplace incidents exposed the hazardous conditions under which they continue to work. Amnesty International also slammed Islamabad for its continued failure to eliminate hazardous manual sewer-cleaning practices.

In posts shared on X, Amnesty International stated that on July 4, two sanitation workers died and another was critically injured after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a manhole in Chishtian, Punjab. The organisation described the incident as the latest in a string of preventable tragedies involving workers undertaking dangerous sewer-cleaning operations without adequate safety equipment or protect...