#Sialkot

Pakistani workers earn only Rs 160 per ball despite producing 70% of the World’s Footballs

One of Sialkot’s 1,000 factories produces more than two-thirds of the world’s footballs, including the Adidas Al Rihla, the official ball of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which begins this month. Approximately 60,000 people, or 8 percent of the city’s population, work in the soccer ball manufacturing industry in Sialkot. They frequently…