Bodies of Pakistanis drowned in UAE recovered

The News (24/02/2004)

KARACHI: Human and civil rights activist and Chairman Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International Ansar Burney, Advocate, on Monday said the dead bodies of Pakistanis, drowned in UAE seawater by human smuggler have been found with co-operation of the UAE government.

He said a team of Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International will leave for Dubai soon to bring the bodies back to hand them over to their families for burial in Pakistan.

After having come to know that human smugglers had thrown nine Pakistanis into seawater and drowned them, Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International immediately contacted with the UAE government as well as Dubai Police Chief Major General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim and requested to help the trust in search of the dead bodies of Pakistani immigrants drowned somewhere close to the Arabian Sea.

The only eyewitness survived revealed to Ansar Burney Welfare Trust that human smugglers in the waters closed to Dubai drowned his nine companions belonging to Mandi Bahauddin and Sargodha areas of Punjab.

The agent took these innocent persons on a dream journey of brighter future in the Middle East but showed them the way to the valley of death. "They drowned in front of me before they died, we all were crying for help to save our lives but no one heard our hue and cry, fortunately Almighty Allah saved my life and I managed to reach Dubai," informed the only survivor Qamar Zaman to his family members in Mandi Bahauddin.

Syed Fahad Burney, Vice Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International said that now in Pakistan the trust had been engaged in collecting details of these ill-fated Pakistanis with the assistance of authorities in Dubai and Pakistan.

Syed Fahad Burney, asked the relatives to contact immediately to Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International at 6 Hassan Manzil, Arambagh Road,

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