LAHORE: Nearly naked and covered with a black, foul-smelling muck, Shafiq Masih struggles out of a sewer he has just cleaned by hand in an upmarket district of Lahore, Pakistan’s second biggest city.
Every day the 44-year-old descends into the city’s sewers, braving toxic gases emitted by excrement, pollutants and other waste, to manually unblock the drains of the city.
“When someone goes down, they have to sacrifice all self-respect,” he told AFP.
“People go to the toilet, flush the toilet, and all the dirt gets dumped on…
