RAWALPINDI, Aug 26: Fifty-eight Pakistanis deported from the United States arrived at the Islamabad airport on a chartered flight from Louisiana on Thursday afternoon.
An immigration official said 59 Pakistanis were scheduled to return but one of them was dropped due to unknown reasons. The deportees, accompanied by Pakistani embassy officials, on arrival at the airport were kept inside the plane for more than one hour due to VVIP movement at the airport.
Later they were disembarked and handed over to the immigration authorities, who allowed them to go after completion of their paper work. This was the 8th chartered flight bringing back the Pakistanis deported from the US for violating immigration laws. A total of 1,682 detainees have so far been deported to Pakistan.
As many as 25 of them were those who had been issued deportation orders in the past but who did not comply with the orders. The remaining were convicted of credit card frauds and other petty crimes. Some of them had already completed their sentences.
Authorities at the Islamabad airport provided them with financial assistance to enable them to reach their homes. One of the deportees, who identified himself as Nasir from Karachi, said: "It is my sane advice to the young generation not to go to America. They should stay in Pakistan and work hard for their motherland as we have no scope in the US."
