| They could get in any other way? |
KARACHI - Two cargo ferries arrived Thursday in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, carrying 1,018 Pakistanis arrested in Oman and deported for illegal entry and working without permission, an official said. The men had been jailed two to six months in Oman and released on Tuesday to be sent home, said Malik Subh Sadiq, an official with Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency. Sadiq said the men will allowed to go home after they're questioned about suspected human traffickers, who may have helped them enter Oman illegally in exchange for money.
| The Omani version of coyotes. |
Thousands of Pakistanis try to seek jobs in oil-rich Middle East countries, many of them paying smugglers to take them there. They are often caught and sent back. Oman has deported some 40,000 Pakistanis in the past two years, the Federal Investigation Agency has said.
| Better work on those forged passports. |
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