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PHOTOS BY ATHAR HUSSAIN
KARACHI: Instead of holding pencils in their tiny hands these little children devein shrimps in a processing unit to earn less than a couple of hundred rupees.
Along with their mothers and other relatives they converge at one such sweatshop at dockyard. Workers are supposed to devein a 2kg basket full of freshly caught shrimps. They are served one meal and a meager wage of Rs. 100 to 150/- per day.
The shrimps from Arabian Sea is thus value-added to be exported further, filling the coffers of exploiters. They became rich, in the first place, taking advantage of the predicament of such poor of the poorest.
