ISLAMABAD: For 15 years, Mushtaq Khan has worked as a daily wage laborer on construction sites in Islamabad, sending money home to his family in northwestern Pakistan and making enough to be able to take a few days off every three weeks.
But earlier this month, the 32-year-old sat on a street corner in an upmarket neighborhood of the capital next to his shovel and pickaxe as another day passed by with no work and nothing to look forward to but the corridor of a commercial building where he sleeps every night with dozens of other workers.
“I’ve barely made 3,000 rupees ($19) in the past two months,” Khan told Arab News.
“I voted for them (the current government) so that a man who can fix the system takes over, but I don’t know what is being done. There is no work.”
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