Islamabad, Aug. 9 -- A new report by Amnesty International has exposed Pakistan's deep-rooted caste and religion-based discrimination against sanitation workers, revealing a system designed to exploit some of the country's most marginalised communities while denying them basic labour rights and human dignity.

Titled "Cut Us Open and See That We Bleed Like Them", the Amnesty International report documents how sanitation workers, predominantly Christians and Hindus from so-called "lower castes," are confined to hazardous, low-paid work through discriminatory recruitment, dangerous conditions, and systemic neglect. The report, compiled with the Pakistani rights group Center for Law & Justice, draws on testimonies from over 230 workers acros...