(AFP) Days after the coronavirus crisis took hold in Pakistan, Aamir Gill, a cleaner and member of the country’s Christian underclass, was fired. He had no warning or severance by the wealthy family he had helped look after.
Many other Christians — who live a hand-to-mouth existence in the Islamic country — have also been laid off and, with little access to government help, are wondering how they will survive.
“We were already untouchables and now due to corona, rich people think the poor might bring it into their homes,” Gill told AFP ahead of an uncertain Easter.