Islamabad [Pakistan], September 28 (ANI): As many as 90 per cent of beggars arrested in international international locations belong to Pakistan, reported The Dawn.
The Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis was knowledgeable on Wednesday that a lot of beggars from Pakistan have been transferring overseas, which has additional spurred “human trafficking”.
Overseas Ministry Secretary Zulfikar Haider disclosed this throughout a dialogue within the Senate panel on the problem of expert and unskilled labour leaving the nation.
Haider instructed the committee {that a} staggering”90 per cent of beggars” arrested in international international locations have been of Pakistani origin, Dawn reported. He additional stated that many beggars exploited pilgrim visas to journey to Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq.
Adding to this, he famous {that a} important variety of pickpockets have been arrested at holy websites and have been recognized to be Pakistani nationals.
Meanwhile, Haider stated that Japan has now emerged as a brand new vacation spot of such guests, in keeping with Dawn.
Moreover, he emphasised Pakistan’s historic function in exporting expert labour and expressed optimism that the nation’s international remittances would enhance when professionals went overseas.
He additional stated that Saudi Arabia now most popular expert labour over untrained people, in keeping with Dawn.
Hasan additionally famous that as many as 50,000 engineers in Pakistan have been unemployed.
“India has reached the moon, while we stumble every day,” the senator added.
He additionally knowledgeable that that roughly three million individuals have been in Saudi Arabia, 1.5 million Pakistanis have been within the UAE, whereas 0.2 million have been in Qatar. (ANI)