The executive director of the Sindhi American Political Action Committee will discuss human-rights abuses against Sindhis in Pakistan on Monday at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Munawar "Sufi" Laghari will deliver his talk, "Pakistan-U.S. Relations: Human Rights Abuses in Sindh," at 7 p.m. in the Donaghey Student Center, meeting room D.
As retribution for his advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistani forces held Laghari captive and tortured him, according to the PAC's website. Laghari eventually escaped Sindh, leaving behind his parents and extended family to seek asylum in the United States, where he has been since 1994.
The UALR Department of Political Science and UALR International Studies Program are hosting the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
Metro on 10/26/2014