Top Story

  Editorial

  Metro

  Kashmir

  Business

  Sports

  Scoop

  Societal

  Health

    Cartoon

CHAGAI: Iranian authorities after arresting 110 Pakistani nationals for illegally entering into Iran handed them over to Levies authorities at Pak-Iran border at Taftan on Friday.

Levies officials at Taftan say, 66 of them have been handed over to Federal Investigation Agency for investigation while remaining 44 persons are still in the custody of Levies who would also be entrusted to FIA after initial investigation.

Meanwhile, Pakistani authorities at Taftan have pushed back five Bangladeshi nationals to Iran who were trying to enter Pakistan without any traveling documents.

27 more Pakistanis released from Yemen return home

Meanwhile in Karachi, 27 more Pakistani crewmen on slave labourer, who were stuck at Aden Sea, since last one and a half year and recently got released by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, from the clutches of human smugglers, returned on Friday. The authorities in Yemen found their traveling documents as genuine.

Those who came back home in this batch are belonging from Gujrat, Gujranwala, Lahore, Mandi Bahauddin, Karachi, Peshawar and other parts of Pakistan. It is more that all of their expenses were born by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust. These 27 Pakistani crewmen were stuck in Aden Sea since last one and a half year and rescued only due to the personal hectic efforts of ‘human rights Angel’ Ansar Burney, head of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International.

These Pakistanis were on slave labour camps in deep sea, where they spent their times in miserable conditions. To satisfy their hunger they were drinking seawater after boiling it and taking the salt out from the seawater. They were starving, drinking rusty water and has no medical facilities on the Ship at sea port.

According to details after hue and cry from these innocent crewmen, the Yemeni Agents even stopped the supply of food and they do not have anything to eat for the last few months. These Pakistanis were going to die if the human rights Angel Ansar Burney to them would not provide help.