Over 250,000 return from abroad

E-Paper | March 14, 2026

ISLAMABAD: As many as 251,624 Pakistani nationals were repatriated to the country from abroad during the tenure of the present government.

According to Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s written reply to a question asked by MNA Sajida Begum of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, 45,008 Pakistanis were brought to the country between June 1 and Dec 31, 2013, 78,409 in 2014 and 116,165 during last year.

In the past few months 12,022 Pakistanis were repatriated from all over the world.

According to official documents, 120,393 persons were sent back from Saudi Arabia, 38,097 from Iran, 23,330 from the United Arab Emirates, 5,400 from the United Kingdom, 358 from the United States, 11,248 from Oman, 9,789 from Malaysia and 6,976 from Greece during the two and a half years.

Another 4,304 were repatriated from Turkey, 1,275 from South Africa, 493 from Qatar, 485 from France, 198 from Canada, 99 from Australia, 91 from Bangladesh, 115 from China, 64 from Japan, 30 from Afghanistan and 27 from India.

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2016

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Akbar

Mar 19, 2016 06:54am

Dawn must try to run a story interview these people as to how/what/which circumstances these people have been repatriated? The 250k is a huge number. There are countries like Bangladesh/India/Philippine/Nepal whose citizens work overseas.while their citizens are not repatriated, why only Pakistani`s?

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Kamal Pasha.

Mar 19, 2016 12:55pm

@Akbar, Keep your knowledge uptodate. All the GCC countries deport South Asians illegals from their countries every year and most of them are Indians because of their population.

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Iftikhar Husain

Mar 19, 2016 05:36pm

This is the result of massive increase in population and no certainty of work in Pakistan ang the governments donot care for the welfare of the people. It is amazing number of returnees.

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AKB

Mar 19, 2016 09:05pm

Bad show on the part of Government for lack of understanding with the countries which have sent back Pakistanis because now there will be more jobless people in Pakistan.

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