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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