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The dark side of mining in KPK

Islam Gul Afridi

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Is mining safe? How long is a piece of string? It's hard, dangerous work and the hours are long and arduous - breaking rocks in the hot sun, the pale moonlight, or underground has always, and will always be, high risk.Falling rock kills, and so does complacency.Islam Gul Afridi has visited a one of the mining site and prepared a report that you can listen to it here.


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Is mining safe? How long is a piece of string? It's hard, dangerous work and the hours are long and arduous - breaking rocks in the hot sun, the pale moonlight, or underground has always, and will always be, high risk.Falling rock kills, and so does complacency.Islam Gul Afridi has visited a one of the mining site and prepared a report that you can listen to it here.



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