Yes! TIME magazine published an article the 27th of this month (October) about slavery that takes place today in Pakistan. It talks about how the laborers are cheated out of what they deserve and are then forced to work for no pay after all of that...and at gun point! Put yourself in this position. How would you feel if you always had someone of higher status breathing down the back of your neck with a gun in his hand making sure you don't mess up because if you do, you pay the price. What is the price? In most instances, it is your life.
Below is an excerpt from the article previously mentioned.
"A 2004 study by the International Labour Office (ILO) estimated that there are up to a million haari families in Sindh alone, the majority living in conditions of debt bondage, which the U.N. defines as modern-day slavery. Last fall, Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper quoted the labor minister of neighboring Punjab province as saying that landlords hold millions of forced laborers in "private prisons" across the country."
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source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932723,00.html#ixzz0WJnuMOKv
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