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| July 24, 2003 | Thursday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 23, 1424 |
75 Pakistanis deported from US
WASHINGTON, July 23: A special US flight will reach Islamabad on Thursday evening with 75 Pakistani nationals deported from the United States.
Sixty-one of these are deportation absconders or people who had been ordered by US immigration courts to leave the country but failed to do so, the Pakistani embassy in Washington said.
Seven of them are convicts, two arrested on drug charges, one on assault, one on credit card fraud, one on financial fraud, one on ID violation and one on immigration fraud.
Seven others were arrested during special registration that requires men from several Muslim countries to register with the immigration department. “Most of these people were in prison for more than four months and wanted to go back home,” said Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s deputy chief of mission in Washington.
“This time the deportees will not be handcuffed but will be restrained in their seats,” he added. Two doctors are also accompanying the deportees to Islamabad to provide medical assistance, if needed. This is the fourth group of Pakistanis ordered out of the country.
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