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725 Pakistanis back from Muscat
2006-02-09
A boat carrying 725 Pakistanis deported from Muscat, arrived at Ghas Bander, Keamari on Wednesday. Exhausted by hunger and thirst, the deportees were welcomed by the Ansar Burney Trust, who provided them drinking water, tea and good food. They were released one by one after FIA immigration checked their traveling documents issued by the Pakistan Embassy at Muscat. The job seekers, most of them illiterate, had been trafficked to the Gulf States through Taftan, illegally crossing the Pakistan-Iran border near Mand Ballu. According to sources, thousands of people are still on the Pakistan-Iran border and their ultimate destination is Muscat and after entering illegally, they would travel to UAE and other countries in the Middle East by road. Over 100,000 Pakistanis were deported during the last two years.
Posted by:Fred

#3  This is the route I think Bin Laden and others may have used. UBL's father was a dockworker in Yemen before making his construction business fortune, and his vacations spent on the Syrian beach. Also reportedly had investments in his own ships, so he is not exclusively the desert cave dweller he portrays himself as. Crossing into the Arabian desert from there unnoticed is relatively easy, too.
Posted by: Danielle   2006-02-09 10:42  

#2   It's not clear form the article, but their routing requires they be smuggled from Iran by boat.
It's just a short trip across the Straits of Hormuz from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Muscat, Oman. I just wonder how they get from the Iran/Pakistan border to Bandar Abbas - possibly by bus, provided by the Iranian government? Pakistanis seem to be the nationality of choice for stirring up trouble in other people's countries.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-02-09 10:01  

#1  It's not clear form the article, but their routing requires they be smuggled from Iran by boat.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-02-09 01:23  

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