ILO offers assistance on marble mines

The International Labor Organisation (ILO) has said that it was ready to assist the provincial government in making mines safe. This was stated by the ILO Pakistan Head Ingrid Christensen during a meeting with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Labour Minister Shaukat Yousafzai on Thursday. The ILO official expressed sorrow over the recent tragedy in the Mohmand district. Yousafzai said that the government is in the process of enacting legislation to prevent such incidents in the future. The ILO official said that K-P provides a suitable environment for industrial development in all respects and the provincial government should learn from international experiences for future planning.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26^th, 2020.