1,025 Pakistanis return from Muscat

The News (10/12/2003)
By our correspondent

KARACHI: Another batch of 1,025 Pakistani prisoners, recently released from the jails of Muscat, will return home on Wednesday (today).

A statement of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust (ABWT) issued on Tuesday said: "These innocent persons have spent several months in a critical and painful condition in Omani jails and will arrive on two boats at Ghasbander, Keamari on December 10."

Ansar Burney advocate managed to get 1,025 ill-fated Pakistanis released with the co-operation of Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In November this year, the Trust brought back some 3,500 Pakistanis by getting them released from Muscat jails. The Trust, in the last year, succeeded in getting 15,000 such prisoners released and brought them back to Pakistan.

These Pakistanis had illegally gone to Oman with the help of human smugglers in search of better employment opportunities. Omani law enforcement agencies arrested them and kept them in various jails.

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