The Gulf Extracted Pakistani Labor For Decades

Calling it a favor is the fraud the coercion argument runs on.

There is a version of the Gulf that its governments prefer to present: a civilisation conjured from desert and oil revenue through the vision of its rulers, its towers and highways and hospitals the expression of a sovereign ambition made material. This version is not entirely false. The oil was real, the ambition was real, and the money was spent. What…