Slave Trader Gaoled
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LAHORE, October 13. Umar Shah, a slave trader of the Sind region of West Pakistan, has been sentenced to 77 years hard labour on charges of running slave labour camps. He and 17 accomplices were found guilty of kidnapping 76 persons—36 of them minors —and using them as slaves in excavation works in the deserts of the Sind region. The slave camps were discovered by the police last April.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 13
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