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Lens on Pak rest house staff for using judges' crockery
The Morning Standard
|July 22, 2025
FOUR employees of a rest house in Pakistan are facing punitive action for eating in the crockery designated for 'honourable judges, sparking a debate over class divide and discriminatory practices in the country.
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The Lahore High Court had ordered a probe into the use of "forbidden" crockery meant for judges of the superior court against four suspects -- Samuel Sandhu (waiter), Faisal Hayat (coolie), Shahzad Masih (sweeper) and Muhammad Imran (counter staff). Two of the accused were Christians.
This story is from the July 22, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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