#so many working class people have died during the two years i've been politically organising and i've had to deal with all that
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aflamethatneverdies · 1 year ago
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Just to add some context, Dawood group (one of the owners of which was Shehzada Dawood) owns Engro corporation, and Engro corporation has not only been involved in price gouging of fertilisers in my country due to which it has been fined billions:
https://tribune.com.pk/story/530322/collusive-activities-ccp-nails-fauji-fertilizer-engro-fertilizers-with-rs8-6b-fine?amp=1
But Engro also opened a Thar coal open pit power plant, displacing people from that region and making their lives worse and contributing to climate change. They are also looking to open more coal fired power plants in the same region. The local people and climate activists here despise Engro and their coal projects. The water samples taken from the region where the Thar coal mine is operating, were found to be contaminated as a result: 
https://twitter.com/lok_sujag/status/1643557458303160322/photo/1
That all, when atleast 298 people from my country have died risking their lives to get to Europe for better economic conditions because our economy is completely in shambles and prices for everything are too high and there are no safety nets at all here, that there are in first world countries. Our ruling class is a joke that has led to these conditions that have forced people to migrate, they have always sold our labour to other countries-- the Gulf countries mostly, and relied on remittances instead of doing anything for the country and when working class people try to leave they have to face all this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/pakistanis-were-forced-below-deck-on-refugee-boat-in-greece-disaster
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