Lost in migration
(THE NEWS – Malaika Raza) Migrant workers are an integral part of Pakistan’s economy and the labour market. Remittances from the overseas workforce are not only one of the major...
Art installation draws attention to plight of Pakistani labourers imprisoned abroad
(DAWN – Sheharyar Rizwan) An art installation, titled ‘Lost/Un-found’, was inaugurated on Wednesday at the Fatima Jinnah Park in Islamabad, commemorating the International Migrants Day observed every year on...
Broken lives
(DAWN – Sana Farrukh) A PAKISTANI in a foreign jail is not an uncommon phenomenon. Approximately 11,000 of us are imprisoned around the world. We cannot acknowledge International Migrants Day...
JPP slams beheading of Pakistani prisoner in S. Arabia
(DAWN – Staff Reporter) LAHORE: The Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) denounced the beheading of yet another Pakistani citizen, Mohammad Imran, in Shumaisi prison of Jeddah on Thursday. Read more…...
Executions in Saudi Arabia
(DAWN – Editorial) IN a travesty of justice, Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Pakistani woman. According to Justice Project Pakistan, Fatima Ijaz was the first Pakistani woman to...
Pakistani couple executed for ‘heroin smuggling’ in Saudi Arabia
(The Express Tribune – News Desk) Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said on Thursday that two Pakistani nationals, a husband and wife, had been executed for heroin smuggling, according to...
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