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LAHORE: Pakistan on Tuesday refused entry to 107 Pakistani citizens deported by Saudi Arabia for not having the requisite entry documents but later allowed entry to the deportees on orders of the interior ministry, airport sources said.
A flight from Jeddah carried the deportees to Lahore airport on Tuesday, however, immigration officials refused them entry as the deportees did not have the required documents needed for entry.
It was not clear why Saudi authorities deported the Pakistani citizens, at least 15 of whom were women.
Sources said immigration authorities wanted to send the deportees back to Jeddah after refusing to process their entry into Pakistan while Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials wanted to detain the deportees, as is the standard procedure.
However, the deportees were later allowed entry into the country by order of the interior ministry. FIA is now expected to take the deportees into custody.
Earlier on Dec 10, Pakistani authorities refused to accept six migrants after the FIA found that they had been illegally deported to Pakistan from the UK.
About 36 others, who possessed travel documents, were accepted by Pakistani authorities – 34 of whom were allowed to go home after brief questioning. Two others were sent to the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell.
A week earlier, the authorities refused to accept 49 illegal Pakistani immigrants who had been deported by Greek authorities. Only 19 people were accepted following verification. The remaining 30 deportees were sent back to Greece on the special flight that brought them to Pakistan.
In a statement released at the time, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said: "No unregistered deportee will be allowed to come to Pakistan and if that happens they will be sent back."
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Dec 29, 2015 12:24pm
"It was not clear why Saudi authorities deported". Shows the attitude of Saudi's towards Pakistan, they care a damn.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:25pm
brother country :)
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Dec 29, 2015 12:34pm
Let's not blow it to an extent that our brothers in Saudi face difficult times ahead.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:35pm
Pmln taking stand.shocking .but we welcome it.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:36pm
only one man in whole PMLn is doing his job, and no surprise PM dont like him. good chaudry nisar
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Dec 29, 2015 12:37pm
You will have to admit them... Saudi Arabia is not Greece..
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Dec 29, 2015 12:38pm
At last someone is standing up, it will take little time but keep it up minister. Remember you are the only one in this cabinet who is working for the people of Pakistan.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:38pm
Law is Law. Good work by Pakistan, Whether it's Greece or Petroleum(Saudia).
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Dec 29, 2015 12:39pm
This is what Pakistan will get for joining the so-called coalition
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Dec 29, 2015 12:40pm
Ch.Nisar you are Star !! taking a stand against SA govt.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:40pm
Very Brotherly...
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Dec 29, 2015 12:42pm
@logic OK Saudi Arabia is not Greece but it does not mean that every one put on flight and send to Pakistan At least full proof of identity and checking should be comply before give entry to Pakistan. Good decision by authorities
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Dec 29, 2015 12:44pm
how the hell you can make your own people suffer even more? atleast they should be carrying pakistan passports; that's enough to prove that they are pakistani citizens. now it is govt's responsibility to help them instead.
we say we have democracy, that's govt of the people, by the people and for the people. but is it really so?????
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Dec 29, 2015 12:44pm
@ Khan
lol did you even read the news? he's the one who allowed their return without "Proper"documents.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:45pm
Brave.... Ch. Nisar should be next PM.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:46pm
Illegal immigrants are liable to be deported in every country, so Saudi Arab has done the same.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:47pm
I have never heard that Ministry of Interior has caught people who are making innocent Pakistanis go abroad and then get deported. In a corrupt society of Pakistan, making quick money and get things done via short cut has become a culture. Why blame KSA? Look at what we are up to!
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Dec 29, 2015 12:49pm
This is illogical........How can you deny entry to a person carrying Pakistani passport? Any individual with Pakistani passport can enter Pakistan whenever or from wherever he wishes.................Which law allows Interior Ministry to do such an act? ....Is there no other way to resolve the issue of deportees...........
Lets suppose......now Saudis put these hundred people behind the bars and let them rot there for years.....then, Should Pakistan not ask for their release and repatriation (Without required documentation, say)?
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Dec 29, 2015 12:49pm
Ch Nisar you are the only man in Pak.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:51pm
Good move by both countries.
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Dec 29, 2015 12:54pm
Ch Nisar wold have responded as he did to the flight coming from Greece, but no ...all know y...might have resisted at a lower level but having TOLD by high UPs , the ball rolled the other way ....
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Dec 29, 2015 12:57pm
wonder how people are praising this stupid move of clueless govt. even if they are sent back to KSA, they will end up going to the jail there. why making those poor to suffer. God knows how they managed paying to agents who helped them go out.
if govt. has any direction for it, it has to help these people first; and they take up their individual cases as lead to catch those who sent them out illegally. Then while going out, one has go thru a process called protectership. that is supposed to be an insurance. why the same deptt cant help these guys a little financially? but we have no system unfortunately.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:00pm
@Hamid shafiq Read the news again... I knew it will happen..
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Dec 29, 2015 01:13pm
What happened Chaudhry Nisar Sahib about your principled standard on the deportees. You must not have allowed reentry to Pakistanis unless they carried identity papers either their passports and a temporary pass-out issued to the deportees by Pakistani Consulate after proper verification. So, you have dual policy for deportees from Middle East and those from the European Countries, which will surely weaken Pakistan's position.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:13pm
I find it funny that people are hailing him as a Hero for refusing own countrymen to enter their own country
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Dec 29, 2015 01:13pm
The bonafide citizens of Pakistan if deported by any foreign country cannot be sent back but to be dealt with the country's law.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:13pm
what are these "requisite" documents? A citizen should only need a passport to enter his country, right?
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Dec 29, 2015 01:15pm
Well, I guess the Saudis don't care a damn about Pakistani laws and will do whatever they please.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:17pm
How this people posses valid documents ? They have gone through illegal route and entered in that country. If send them back, they will languish in their Jails, as they are not their citizen. It is better to retain, and carryout enquiry.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:20pm
Saudi Arabia is not friend of Pakistan, it just uses Pakistan, you can deny all you want but that's the fact.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:24pm
I think the law has to be followed, this will be good to control entry of terrorists in Pakistan. The deported persons should have some document to prove he or she is a Pakistani. Pakistan is enjoying best of relationship with Saudi Arabia & other gulf countries. It is not good to relate all titbits as hostile.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:27pm
Expecting favours while you always refusing them, where it is written please tell especially those criticising Saudi Arabia. Who are you to criticise its their country and its their law simple as that.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:28pm
ONE WAY IT IS GOOD..30 Deportees to Greece will settle comfortably there and may be later can get Greek passport..the ultimate target !!
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Dec 29, 2015 01:47pm
If they are Pakistani. First why were they allowed to leave Pakistan without proper papers?
Secondly if there is no proof of them being Pakistani then they should be sent back.
It appears that when it comes to SAUDI ARABIA we take what ever they throw at us. It is shameful for pakistan government to behave in this manner. Saudies never treat us as brothers.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:47pm
Obviously they had to allow... Kudos to our interior minister at least he tried… :)
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Dec 29, 2015 01:50pm
You send them illegally, they send them back illegally.
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Dec 29, 2015 01:50pm
If you are residing illegally in the country and when the authority catch up on to you would be ask by the immigration officer which country do you come from now if you're Pakistan you would say you are from Pakistan I don't think any Indian will Say he is Pakistani or a Bangladeshi Send them all back if they are illegal
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Dec 29, 2015 02:03pm
No one should be allowed without proper identification documentation. How can we say that deportees are Pakistanis. They can be Indians or Bangladeshis or others. All South Asian look similar and speak similar languages.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:16pm
they are Pakistanis so every right to enter motherland ,
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Dec 29, 2015 02:24pm
Most of the deportees are from Gujranwala, Pindi and Lahore where Human trafficking takes place
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Dec 29, 2015 02:28pm
Scores of Pakistani came here for Umrah and then scattered & hide into different parts of KSA with the help of their friends or relatives already working there. Then they start earning Riyals and don't go back. I personally have seen people who stayed illegally for years depriving KSA government resident permit fees and others. And once they are caught they traveled to Pakistan for free on Saudi Airline. And still we are not grateful to KSA govt.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:31pm
So this is what is known as 'taking a stand'... until you find out its the Saudis and then you bend over backwards to accommodate them.
In a statement released at the time, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said: "No unregistered deportee will be allowed to come to Pakistan and if that happens they will be sent back.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:33pm
weldone ch.nisar
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Dec 29, 2015 02:40pm
@Arshad Hussain did you read the article?
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Dec 29, 2015 02:40pm
@ Khan you surely have not read the complete article.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:42pm
@Mirza and where is the proof that they are Pakistanis? They could be Afghans, Iranians, Bangladeshi, Indians, Burmese, Tajik, Uzbeks, Kaziks, Turkmen and the list goes on.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:43pm
@Rasheed Gadit On what basis Saudi Govt. is sending them to Pakistan? if they have any proof then they should provided to Pakistani Immigration Authorities.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:48pm
@Khattak "...if you're Pakistan you would say you are from Pakistan I don't think any Indian will Say he is Pakistani or a Bangladeshi ..."
You are so naive bro.
This process has no weight. Particularly after the cold war. Many Soviet and Nazi agents entered into US and other European countries by falsifying their identity.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:02pm
@GS Grow up man and come of out of prejudice. What about the deportees from Greece and UK? Does that indicate attitude of respective countries too! Always think twice before speak dear like lettered figures.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:14pm
They probably were legally entered in SA
But at some time their contract finished but they didn't leave the country and hid and worked on cash. This is most common scenario. Most of illegal immigrants don't renew passports because there information could be shared with foreign country additionally they don't want to spend money on return ticket. They know if they get caught they will be in prison and later free return ticket. It may not be the case with all of them.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:22pm
Education in Pakistan, massive education, education on emergency footing is answer to all such problems.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:36pm
@ailly And control the population growth rate!
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Dec 29, 2015 03:38pm
FIA is now expected to take the deportees into custody. Poor guys will be fleeced by FIA.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:45pm
@Shehryar Hassan you are wrong. Any Pakistani holding a Pakistani passport cannot enter Pakistan. They need to present evidence that from where they exited the country and which country did they enter after exiting from Pakistan. their needs to be entry and exit stamps all through the way. On the way back they need to have the exit stamp from the foreign country and then upon arrival they get the entry stamp in Pakistan.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:55pm
How can you stop your own people from coming in the country?
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Dec 29, 2015 03:59pm
@buzdar Before comments knowledge of cases necessary.
People going on Umrrah visa and starting working
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Dec 29, 2015 04:03pm
May be due to expiry of visa & work permit/Iqama . Matter to be investigated by FIA on what went wrong on the deportation .
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Dec 29, 2015 04:13pm
But they included Pakistan army to fight their war without even asking Pakistan. This shows our place in middle east
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Dec 29, 2015 04:15pm
Those deported by Greece were not accepted and Ch Sb was behaving likr Maula Jatt. Why couldn't he refuse to Saudi Arabia.
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Dec 29, 2015 04:41pm
No country including Pakistan can refuse entry to its own citizens at any time even if they are deported, unless their identity and thus citizenship itself is not established.
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Dec 29, 2015 04:43pm
Thousands of Indians go to KSA, hundreds get deported or beheaded etc. Never heard Indian government complain. We have left it to the people who go there whether they want to take the risk.
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Dec 29, 2015 05:02pm
Those returning from Saudi Arabia do not need Documents, according to the Interior Minister.
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Dec 29, 2015 06:08pm
@BK You make too much sense for the readers here,
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Dec 29, 2015 06:45pm
Saudi Arabia is not Europe. If you dont accept these people, they will send all the Pak expats home. You dont want that.
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Dec 29, 2015 08:08pm
Those who criticize Saudi Arabia must realize that the only country that backed Pakistan and helped Pakistan in its time of trial was Saudi A. It gave us 1.1 billion dollars to Bhutto to purchase reprocessing plant from France. It gave us free crude oil in 1969 for one year when we were at bankruptcy after making Atomic bomb and US had cut any aid. Just in last two years SA gave two billion dollars. There are over 250,000 Pakistanis emplyeed in SA who remit almost 8 billion dollars to Pakistan every year although India had offered them expats ay much lower rates. Imagine if these Pakistanis are returned back to Pakistan there will be chaos in Pakistan. So we must be grateful to Saudi Arabia. No other country neither Iran or Kuwait or Arab Emirates have done so much for Pakistan. Iran always gets,people from India only.
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Dec 29, 2015 09:25pm
So if they are not from Greece and from Saudi Arabi, they will be accepted without proper identification. That shows our slavery to oil rich Arabs.
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Dec 29, 2015 09:29pm
Pakistan is the only country who does not protect its own citizens overseas. All the problem will be solved if ,EXIT VISA" is issued to persons having legitimate visa or immigration document before leaving the country. Jail anyone coming back not having "Exit Visa" as illegally left country but a Pakistani citizen.
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Dec 29, 2015 10:04pm
Wow! people are going out on a limb to bash Saudi Arabia. We will not except our own citizens because their papers are not in order but we except them to let them in their country.
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Dec 29, 2015 10:14pm
Also if these people were jailed in Saudi then these same people will criticize them for jailing instead of returning them back.
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Dec 30, 2015 01:48am
where is Mr.Chudhary Nisar now? Don't have courage to send them back to BROTHER COUNTRY.
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Dec 30, 2015 02:42am
International law says that for stateless person, the place is birth place. So even if no proof or any residency or citizenship, if a person has proof of birth in a country then that country should not refuse entry to that person. These poor helpless peoples went to SA to make life better. If due to any reason the SA deported them back then Pak officials should welcome them with open arms and hearts, so that they can feel warmth of their motherland and brothers. Please do not enhance their problems and bad days.
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Dec 30, 2015 05:48am
Now Greece will send them to UK, UK will send them back to us.
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Dec 30, 2015 07:31am
Unnecessary attitude and ego by Ch Nisar,that can only valid for Greece but not Saudi Arabia, and western nations who give grants and aid to Pakistan. However if Ch Nisar still believe in attitudes,arrogance,and ego,he could have stop the corrupt people who were let slipped abroad without hindrance. And instead your ministry is embarrassing the poor guys who just got misguided and went abroad for bread & butter.
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Dec 31, 2015 09:23am
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh should have a 1 or 2 child policy, so all citizens can find work at home, and not go begging abroad for jobs.
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Dec 31, 2015 12:19pm
@haris
Afghans, Iranians, Tajiks and Kazakhs don't look like South Asians and their governments don't provide cheap laborers to GCC states.
I have worked in KSA as a consultant and have never met anyone from the above mentioned countries. The vast majority of the migrant workers in KSA are from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Philippines and Sri Lanka and they are visible every where.
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Dec 31, 2015 12:43pm
I can see too many non-sense comments up here.
Please understand the situation first and then comment. First of all, why Ch Nisar started this process? Foreign countries (especially European) were deporting number of Pakistanis and blaming them as Terrorist without any proof. Those poor guys just went abroad to earn bread and butter had nothing to do with Terrorism, Some of them were not even Pakistanis.
Pakistan Interior Ministry, first time in history, spoke for people of the land that we shall not accept any deportee without Pakistani Citizen Proof verified by Pakistani Embassy and evidence of blame whatever it may be.
I totally appreciate Ch Nisar's effort in this regards and procedure adapted that is need of the hour.
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