The staff of a Chinese garbage company are being targeted by what the company suspects are informal garbage pickers, who face a loss of livelihood. GanSu Construction Investment Heavy Industry Technology won the contract for free door-to-door garbage collection from households in Korangi and started work December 24. Barely a month into its operations, they started facing problems. “The ‘kachra mafia’ which was active in the area before the company’s operation started targeting the team members,” speculated Shafqat Hussain, a GanSu media coordinator. Their identity could not be ascertained. “For two days, the staffers have been targeted and beaten by some unidentified ...