EOBI stands on six broken pillars Hundred years later, we witness a harsh continuum of modern-day slavery of some 90 million workers in Pakistan The writer is a health, safety and environment consultant. He tweets at @saynotoweapons The arrival of the slave ship in 1619, carrying 20 odd enslaved Africans in the British Colony of Virginia, marked the beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America. Five hundred years later, we witness an equally harsh continuum of modern-day slavery of some 90 million workers in Pakistan. Far more sophisticated and subtle, this new version is based on daily waterboarding-like torture intended to socially, economically and physically exploit and asphyxiate its victims. Sadly, this cruel system is designed to pamper the endless self-indulgence of our own rich and greedy elite.