Karachi, May 24: As many as 530 Pakistani labourers
who had illegally emigrated to Oman sailed back to this
southern port city of Karachi today after authorities in Omani
capital Muscat deported them, officials said.
"We have received 530 men deported from Muscat and are
interrogating them to ascertain their nationalities,"
assistant director of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)
Subah Sadiq said.
"After ascertaining nationalities, Pakistani nationals
would be released and if there are any non-Pakistanis among
them they will be detained," he said.
"Almost all of them were smuggled by different gangs from
the shores of Baluchistan to Muscat in dilapidated boats
risking their lives, " Sadiq said.
Before they were deported, Muscat's government had
detained them in jails for several months.
Bureau Report
