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Saudi Arabia to Pakistan: DON’T SEND YOUR BEGGARS & PICKPOCKETS, OUR PRISONS ARE OVERRUN

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Saudi Arabia has raised concerns with Pakistan as most people who travel from the South Asian country to the Kingdom are involved in either begging or pickpocketing and thus, the prisons are overrun.

This was also attested by Secretary Overseas Pakistanis Zeeshan Khanzada, who, during a meeting of the Senate’s standing committee for Overseas Pakistanis, on Wednesday asserted that most of the Pakistanis travelling abroad, are purposely involved in begging, The News International reported.

90% of Pakistanis involved in pickpocketing in Saudi Arabia

In a shocking claim, Rana Mahmoodul Hassan Kakar, in the chair, told the forum that almost 90 per cent of Pakistani citizens travel to the Middle East country under the guise of “pilgrimage”.

Also, he said that Saudi Arabia told the Pakistani officials that the majority of the pickpockets arrested from within Makkah’s grand mosque are Pakistani nationals.

“Ambassadors of Iraq and Saudi Arabia complain to us that their prison facilities have been overrun [due to Pakistani beggars that enter the country via unauthorised channels]. This issue now befalls within the category of human trafficking,” the media outlet quoted Khanzada as saying.

Even Nepal has more skilled people than Pakistan

Further, Chairman Kakar, in a shocking claim, said that only 200 Pakistanis travelled to Japan after the island country had floated a requirement of 3,40,000 skilled people. On the other hand, over 1,50,000 Indians and 91,000 people from Nepal went to Japan, the committee chairman said.

“We have 50,000 unemployed engineers…whereas Nepal which has a total population of 30 million, managed to train their people in the Japanese language [and send them there],” he added.

Moreover, informing about the preparations made with regard to Newtech’s proposal to the Saudi government, Kakar claimed that the initial proposal sent by Islamabad was turned down by Saudi.

“The committee chairman — in light of the fact that Saudi Arabia requires skilled labour — also suggested sending [at least] 50,000 trained people to the Middle-Eastern country,” he stressed.

READ MORE: Pakistan’s ISI behind killing of Canada-based Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar: Report.

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