The executive director of the Sindhi American Political Action Committee (SAPAC) will discuss human rights abuses against Sindhis in Pakistan, including kidnapping, torture, assassination of political leaders, and persecution of minority religious groups.

Munawar “Sufi” Laghari will deliver his talk, “Pakistan-U.S. Relations: Human Rights Abuses in Sindh,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Donaghey Student Center, meeting room D.

The UALR Department of Political Science and UALR International Studies Program are hosting the talk, which is free and open to the public.

As retribution for his advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistani forces held Laghari captive and tortured him, according to the SAPAC 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.

SAPAC urges U.S. congressmen to take notice of human rights abuses when making decisions regarding foreign policy.

For more information, contact Joshua Thomsen at 501.683.7028 or jcthomsen@ualr.edu.