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Overcrowded prisons
- March 22
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(DAWN – Editorial) AS the country grapples with the grave challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Islamabad High Court has taken a welcome initiative to provide relief to the overwhelmed
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Prisoners and the pandemic
- March 22
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(THE NEWS – Foqia Sadiq Khan) The disease caused by the coronavirus is here in Pakistan. We need to think of the most vulnerable in our society. One group of people
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Mentally-challenged prisoners in Pakistan not given due care, laments LHC CJ
- February 23
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- Migrant Workers, News, Overseas Pakistani
(THE NEWS) LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh on Saturday lamented that mentally-ill prisoners in Pakistan were not given due consideration and care. He said provision of
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محمد بن سلمان کے وعدے کے ایک برس بعد بھی سعودی جیلوں میں قید پاکستانیوں کی رہائی میں رکاوٹ کیا؟
- February 18
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- Migrant Workers, News, Opinion & Editorial
(بی بی سی اردو ) مجھے ڈیڑھ ماہ بعد معلوم ہوا کہ میری 62 سالہ بیمار ماں سعودی جیل میں قید ہیں۔ جس عورت نے میری والدہ کو جعل سازی
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No one is listening: Pakistani mothers jailed in Saudi Arabia call for help
- February 17
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- Migrant Workers, News, Overseas Pakistani
(MIDDLE EAST EYE – Suddaf Chaudry) Mohamed Saeed sits on a bed, looking at pictures of his mother who has been held in a Saudi jail for the past three years.
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More Pakistani prisoners in Gulf countries now than in 2014
- February 17
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- Migrant Workers, News, Overseas Pakistani
(SAMAA TV) There has been an increase in the number of prisoners abroad since 2014, especially in Gulf countries, according to a Justice Project Pakistan report. The report titled ‘Migration,
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How poor Pakistanis are tricked into becoming drug mules
- February 06
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- Migrant Workers, News, Overseas Pakistani
(THE ECONOMIST) THE LAST time Abdul Haq saw his son, the young man was bound for a new life, with a work visa in his new passport and a lucrative
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3,240 Pakistanis still in Saudi jails, NA told
- January 02
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- Migrant Workers, News, Overseas Pakistani
(PAKISTAN TODAY – Staff Report) ISLAMABAD: A total of 3,240 Pakistani nationals are still languishing in the prisons of Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi informed the National Assembly’s session
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Lost in migration
- December 18
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- Migrant Workers, News, Opinion & Editorial, Overseas Pakistani
(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 sources
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Art installation draws attention to plight of Pakistani labourers imprisoned abroad
- December 18
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- Migrant Workers, News, Overseas Pakistani
(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 December