Pakistan workers seek escape after Bahrain attacks
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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
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110325com7.html
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