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| Pakastani Workers in Malaysia Assured to be Free Of Militant Activities |
| 2005-05-05 |
| All Pakistanis coming to work in Malaysia are assured to have no connections with militant or other unhealthy activities as they will be thoroughly vetted before being allowed to leave Pakistan's shores. Home Affairs Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid said the assurance was personally given by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz during his three-day working visit to the nation last week. "I am very satisfied with their latest system of vetting which is slightly more advanced that ours," he said. Azmi said under the system, each person seeking employment abroad had to undergo identification checks before they were allowed to apply for passports and visas. The four-finger (thumbs and pointing fingers) and iris scanning system ensures that there can be no falsification of identity, he told reporters after his ministry's post cabinet meeting here Wednesday. Azmi said, besides this, Pakistan would also install a National Database Registration system at its High Commission here to enable Malaysian authorities to check if the workers had entered legally... He also assured employers that Pakistani workers were safe to employ as according to information from the 1970s, they had not given problems in the respective countries they had been employed. He said that so far the government had approved a quota for 100,000 Pakistani workers but that there had been takers for only 1,000... the small number was because employers were not confident enough to hire Pakistanis, preferring Indonesians, particularly in the construction sector. |
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