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Bahrain labour minister says Gulf Arabs 'lazy'

Bahrain labour minister warns of ‘Asian tsunami’

DUBAI - A Bahraini minister has warned of an ‘Asian tsunami’ because of the reliance of ‘lazy’ Gulf Arabs on foreign labour to carry out even the simplest tasks, in an interview published on Sunday.

Labour Minister Majid Al Alawi told Asharq Al Awsat that the presence of almost 17 million foreign workers in the Gulf, mostly from the Asian sub-continent, represented ‘a danger worse than the atomic bomb or an Israeli attack’.

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