Pakistan's brick workers need kilns reignited after floods

Rajanpur, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 6, 2022

The brick kilns that dominate the small village of Aqilpur in Pakistan's Punjab province now lie abandoned, furnaces extinguished by weeks of torrential rain that have caused the worst floods in the country's history. Though the floods that engulfed Aqilpur and its surrounding fields have receded from the highs of a week ago, the kilns are still surrounded by water. Most of those who liv