March 13, 2003	Thursday	Muharram 9, 1424

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WASHINGTON, March 12: Another chartered flight is expected to arrive in Islamabad on Thursday with 103 Pakistani nationals deported from the United States.

US official sources told Dawn on Wednesday that they include immigration violators as well as those arrested on various criminal charges.

The majority belongs to the first category, i.e. those living in the United States without a valid visa or work permit but there are also others who were arrested for possessing drugs, soliciting prostitutes and other similar offences, said one official.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, hundreds of Pakistanis have been deported, initially on commercial flights but later the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service decided to charter planes for deportation when commercial airlines refused to carry detainees due to security threat to other passengers.