Saudi Arabia deports 20 more Pakistanis over visa issue

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The deportees were sent back to Pakistan on separate flights.

LAHORE (Daily Dunya) – Saudi Arabia has deported twenty more Pakistanis for overstaying their visas or violating the rules of work.

Sources told that the deportees were sent back to Pakistan on separate flights whereas Allama Iqbal International Airport authorities allowed them to go to their homes after thorough interrogation.

According to a report of Saudi newspaper, more than 39,000 Pakistanis have been deported from the Kingdom in last four months. The report also stated that some of them were involved in different heinous crimes like smuggling, thefts and drug trafficking.

Furthermore, 82 Pakistanis have been imprisoned in Saudi jails on terror suspicions.

Abdullah Al-Sadoun, chairman of the security committee of the Shoura Council, called for thoroughly scrutinising the Pakistanis before they are recruited for work in the Kingdom, the report said.

Earlier, 89 Pakistanis, in an attempt to enter Europe illegally, were nabbed by Iranian officials after which they were handed over to the administration of Taftan. 

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