'I Fear Hunger
More Than The Virus': Pakistan's Delicate COVID-19 Balance

Pakistan daily wagers struggle to survive in coronavirus lockdown

Here are few statements of those who sit by the side of the road, in the drizzling rain, hoping someone will drive by and offer them work.

"I'm only out here out of hunger, I have no other reason," says the 46-year-old man. "I am a sick man, I had typhoid five or six months ago, and am still suffering."

Another man tells his story

"I am not allowing my father to leave the house," says Noor Ahmed, a daily wage labourer who lives with his 80-year-old father, his wife and son, in a single rented room. "What else can I do?"