Jailed abroad: Scores of Pakistanis portion time in Saudi Arabia, Qatar
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Pakistanis are portion time in opposite prisons of Saudi Arabia while a sum 83,955 Pakistanis have been released puncture papers by Pakistani Consulate General in Jeddah alone in dual years to promote their deportation to Pakistan.
“There are 728 Pakistani prisoners in Jeddah. Teams of a consulate visited jails in Jeddah and surrounding cities as good as deportation centres to emanate puncture transport papers to 50,757 Pakistanis in 2015 and 33,198 Pakistanis in 2016 to promote their deportation to Pakistan,” pronounced a created respond submitted in a Senate by a Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The respond pronounced 1,021 Pakistani prisoners were jailed in Riyadh and eastern and northern provinces.
“The embassy teams visited jails in these regions as good as deportation centres where they released puncture transport papers to 8,421 Pakistanis in 2015 and 8,525 Pakistanis in 2016 to facilitated their deportation,” it added.
The method confirmed that a sum of 7,662 Pakistanis have been arrested in Saudi Arabia on several charges given Jan 1, 2013. “A sum of 3,612 Pakistanis were arrested in Riyadh and 4,050 were arrested in Jeddah during a 4 years given 2013.
The respond also suggested that a vast series of Pakistanis enter Saudi Arabia on Umrah and Azad visas though many of them do not lapse within effect of their visas. They find jobs and stay in a dominion as prolonged as they can equivocate arrest, it said.
Majority of Pakistani workers are employed in blue collar jobs. However, Pakistani doctors, engineers, bankers, plan managers, lecturers, IT professionals and others are also operative in Saudi Arabia.
Out of these Pakistanis, 84 per cent are creatively employed while 16 per cent are independents. Recently 7,000 Pakistani workers became impoverished due to financial problems of some companies.
“Pakistani Embassy in Doha, Qatar frequently undertakes consular visits to a executive jail and inmates are interviewed about a conditions of a jail. Thirteen prisoners are about to finish their judgment in a integrate of months shortening a sum series to 42,” a respond said.
The goal will relief a trickery of Emiri Pardon to be given on Dec 18 that is a inhabitant day of Qatar and is carefree that rebate in sentences as good as a sum recover of cases will be deliberate agreeably by a Government of Qatar, it added.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 7th, 2016.
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