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Pilgrims have to respect Saudi laws

A DELEGATION comprising family members of five Pakistanis detained recently in Saudi Arabia on charges of heroin smuggling had a meeting with Saudi Ambassador Ali Awad Asseri who assured them that there would be fair and impartial investigations by the authorities concerned to ascertain the truth. The family members maintained that these people were duped by the sub-agent of the travel agency into wearing shoes that contained heroin.
A controversy has been generated due to arrest of these persons who were arrested with a total of four kilograms of heroin on their arrival in Saudi Arabia. Some politicians are strongly agitating the issue and they have raised it in Parliament as well urging the Government to take it up with the Saudi authorities. This is not the first and the only incident of its nature as in the past as well a number of Pakistani nationals or passport holders were arrested in the Kingdom on similar charges. It would be only after investigations that it would become clear whether they were carriers or innocent victims. But instead of attaching undue expectations from Saudi Arabia, we should take corrective measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents every now and then. We have a narcotics control agency and a strong network of intelligence agencies and police but regrettably culprits manage to board flights or ships with contrabands and their arrest on arrival at their destinations causes great embarrassment to the country. Saudi Arabia has its own laws and a good reputation of implementing them in letter and in spirit without any discrimination. It is because of this that crime rate in the Kingdom is negligible and incidentally those involved in crimes are often foreign nationals. We, therefore, must not expect them to ignore these crimes and instead strengthen and streamline our own systems to prevent departure of such persons to foreign countries. There are reports that smuggling and drug-trafficking takes place in active connivance of the officials deputed at the airports. Therefore, a comprehensive investigation should be carried out here in Pakistan to ascertain how five people with four kilogram of shoes managed to dodge the system and who was behind the plan.
 

 

 

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