10-12-2006, 05:48 AM
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By Shahzad Malik
ISLAMABAD:<b> Seventy-six Pakistanis on Wednesday returned home after being deported from the US for breaking the law and committing crimes</b>.
A charted plane carrying the deportees landed at the Islamabad International Airport in the afternoon. The majority of the deportees have violated immigration rules.
Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told Daily Times that the deportees were handcuffed till the plane landed at the airport. Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and special commandos escorted the deportees in the plane and they also came out to the immigration cell.
Sources said two women were also among the deportees and FIAâs immigration cell interrogated them. Fourteen deportees had been shifted to FIAâs passport cell for further interrogation, the sources said.
Emotions ran high when the deportees landed at the airport. They kissed the soil and hugged their relations.
<b>Pakistani embassy officials were present in the plane who gave each of the deportees $20 to reach home.</b>
Tanveer Ahmed, a deportee, said he had been living in Virginias over the last 10 years and the US law enforcement agencies arrested him on suspicions of having links with outlaws.
<b>He said the US authorities put him in a jail for two years, where several other Pakistanis were also kept, adding that the police treated them inhumanly. Zafeer Ahmed, another deportee, claimed the US agencies arrested him for growing a long beard and carrying out Islamic practices. âThe US officials disgraced me during detention,â he said</b>. <!--emo&:liar liar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/liar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='liar.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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ISLAMABAD:<b> Seventy-six Pakistanis on Wednesday returned home after being deported from the US for breaking the law and committing crimes</b>.
A charted plane carrying the deportees landed at the Islamabad International Airport in the afternoon. The majority of the deportees have violated immigration rules.
Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told Daily Times that the deportees were handcuffed till the plane landed at the airport. Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and special commandos escorted the deportees in the plane and they also came out to the immigration cell.
Sources said two women were also among the deportees and FIAâs immigration cell interrogated them. Fourteen deportees had been shifted to FIAâs passport cell for further interrogation, the sources said.
Emotions ran high when the deportees landed at the airport. They kissed the soil and hugged their relations.
<b>Pakistani embassy officials were present in the plane who gave each of the deportees $20 to reach home.</b>
Tanveer Ahmed, a deportee, said he had been living in Virginias over the last 10 years and the US law enforcement agencies arrested him on suspicions of having links with outlaws.
<b>He said the US authorities put him in a jail for two years, where several other Pakistanis were also kept, adding that the police treated them inhumanly. Zafeer Ahmed, another deportee, claimed the US agencies arrested him for growing a long beard and carrying out Islamic practices. âThe US officials disgraced me during detention,â he said</b>. <!--emo&:liar liar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/liar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='liar.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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