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Human Smuggling continues: Bodies of eleven to-be-illegal-immigrants brought to Islamabad!

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabian Airlines plane harboring eleven bodies of to-be-illegal-immigrant Pakistanis who drowned when their boat capsized near Libya on 2nd of February, landed here today.

According to details most of those who died while trying to go to Europe via Mediterranean Sea belonged to Gujar Khan, Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin.

Earlier UN migration agency has stated: “At least 90 migrants are reported to have drowned, when a boat capsized off the coast of Libya this morning. 10 bodies are reported to have washed up on Libyan shores”, including two Libyan nationals and eight Pakistanis”.

The Med had maintained its status of being the world’s most dangerous migration route. Just a few days ago some eight hundred migrants were pulled out of the Sea after their barges, dinghies and fishing boats sank in the same day.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.