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Pakistan workers seek escape after Bahrain attacks FEATURE 03/25/2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

Pakistan workers seek escape after Bahrain attacks

FEATURE

03/25/2011
MANAMA — Javid Eqbal toiled in Bahrain to earn his family’s living, only to be attacked with swords by alleged Shiite protesters who loathed Pakistanis for being the foot soldiers of the security forces.

Living in fear of being targeted again, and sheltering at the Pakistani Club in Manama, all he wants now is to get his passport back from his local sponsor and to go home, after at least one Pakistani was killed last week.

Like most Asian workers in the Gulf, he had a low-paid job as a painter. And on March 13, he and his flatmates became victims of the intensified clashes between the predominantly Shiite protesters and police.

That night, Eqbal and his flatmates awoke to find youths breaking into their place, brandishing swords, hammers and steel rods..... MORE

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URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110325com7.html

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