Life as a slave in Pakistan
Theoretically,
Nanji and his family could eventually pay off their debt and start working for
themselves. It almost never works out that way.
HYDERABAD,
Pakistan — In one hand he clutches a hoe, in the other a small plastic truck.
Hamo, 8, has worked as a farm laborer since he was five, alongside his 12
family members who are trapped working on the land of a faceless landlord.
They are slaves.
Nanji, Hamo’s
father, has lived and worked for the last ten years on a plot of land just
outside Hyderabad in southern Sindh. He’s spent his entire life as a bonded
laborer, being sold between farms — first as a child with his parents and today
as a father with his eight children. He arrived at his present the condition in
the usual way: debt.
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