Finally free: Police rescue 53 bonded farmers

MIRPURKHAS: The District and Sessions Court ordered the police to recover 53 bonded farmers from the private jail of a landlord in Kot Ghulam Muhammad. Reports claim that farmer Abdul Majeed Machi had appealed to the court that Muhammad Hanif Qaimkhani, a landlord, had imprisoned 53 members of his family and used them as labour.  The police, on the orders of the court, rescued the farmers including women and children.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 18^th, 2011.