The recent protests in Shangla, where local youth activists blocked highways demanding safer mines, are a desperate cry from communities burying their dead. Over 20 miners from Shangla have died in recent accidents at different mines in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Dozens of miners die in Pakistan every year due to shameful working conditions and the lack of action against greedy mine owners and their influential associates.

Pakistan has still not ratified the ILO's convention on mining safety, meaning that........

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