A boat carrying 725 Pakistanis deported from Muscat, arrived at Ghas Bander, Keamari on Wednesday. Exhausted by hunger and thirst, the deportees were welcomed by the Ansar Burney Trust, who provided them drinking water, tea and good food. They were released one by one after FIA immigration checked their traveling documents issued by the Pakistan Embassy at Muscat. The job seekers, most of them illiterate, had been trafficked to the Gulf States through Taftan, illegally crossing the Pakistan-Iran border near Mand Ballu. According to sources, thousands of people are still on the Pakistan-Iran border and their ultimate destination is Muscat and after entering illegally, they would travel to UAE and other countries in the Middle East by road. Over 100,000 Pakistanis were deported during the last two years. |