[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday detained 49 deportees aboard a chartered flight from Greece at the Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
International Airport on orders of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar.
The interior ministry, in a statement, said the deportees were sent to Pakistain illegally and in violation of Pakistain's laws.
All 49 individuals including the flight crew were initially not allowed to disembark the plane. Later, 30 individuals were sent back, while 19 individuals were cleared by authorities to stay in Pakistain.
An interior ministry front man told Dawn.com that only 19 people on the plane had been verified on the basis of their documentation. The remaining 30 on board the flight were sent back, he added.
In a statement released earlier in the day, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said: "No unregistered deportee will be allowed to come to Pakistain and if that happens they will be sent back."
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Despite having agreed on all issues in a recent meeting with the EU migration commissioner, one European country is violating Pak law, which is unacceptable, he added.
"Some countries are not doing enough to stop this unethical, inhumane and illegal process of deporting individuals," said the minister.
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