The Labour Migration from Pakistan 2015 status report stated that around 14,628 Pakistani migrant workers were detained in jails of different countries from 2005 till 2015.
The report of 10 main cities of different countries was launched by Overseas and Human Resource Development Ministry.
Around 5,171 migrant workers detained in jail in Abu Dhabi, 400 in Baghdad, 336 in Doha, 1,621 in Jeddah, 2, 927 in Kuwait, 1,655 in Manama, 284 in Milan, 2,177 in Muscat, and 57 in Seoul.
However, none was detained in Dubai.
A total of 932,051 migrant workers were stranded in the destination countries without proper documents, and 48,160 irregular migrant workers deported back to Pakistan with the support of government funds.
From 2005 to 2015, embassy or consulate officials or community welfare attaches made 4,200 monitoring visits to the employment sites of migration workers.
Most of the visits were made in Dubai (United Arab Emirates (1,863)), followed by Kuwait (652), Manama Bahrain (496), and Seoul, Republic of Korea (400).
The reports from community welfare attaches in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, and Riyadh have not been received yet, and not mentioned in the report.
