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...
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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...
Amnesty: Lowest number of prisoners executed in 2018
(ALJAZEERA – Saba Aziz) At least 690 prisoners were executed in 20 countries in 2018, marking a 31 percent fall from at least 993 the previous year, according to Amnesty...
Mentally ill prisoner Khizar Hayat passes away after spending 16 years on death row
(DAWN – Rana Bilal) Khizar Hayat, a mentally ill prisoner who spent the last 16 years of his life on death row, passed away on the night of March...
My brother came home from a Saudi jail. Then I woke up from my dream
(DAWN-Asma Shafi) The following is narrated by Asma Shafi to Natasha Zai of Justice Project Pakistan about her brother Ali (not his real name), who was entrapped by overseas...
Pakistani doctors say man on death row is mentally ill
(THE WASHINGTON POST – Associated Press) ISLAMABAD — A rights group says court-appointed doctors have confirmed that a death row prisoner in Pakistan suffers from chronic schizophrenia and requires regular...