ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday asked Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar to take suo motu notice of the plight of Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia.
According to the details, PTI Central Deputy General Secretary Murad Saeed had written to the CJP and briefed him in detail about the miseries of Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia and asked him to take suo motu notice of their plight.
He said that more than one thousand Pakistani nationals were languishing in prisons in Saudi Arabia and urgently needed legal help and assistance from their government to be able to properly defend themselves in the courts.
He also said that Pakistanis were facing hardships in the renewal of their work permits in Saudi Arabia and it had made it hard for them to find jobs. The government tried to distance itself from this matter by terming it as an issue between the employees and the employer, he added.
He further said that the Indian government had furnished Labor Protection Agreement with the Saudi government. Unfortunately, Murad Saeed lamented, Pakistani government had turned a deaf ear to their problems and more heart wrenching was the government’s reluctance to provide legal assistance to the stranded Pakistanis.
Criticising the government, Murad Saeed said that despite raising the matter time and again in the parliament, the government had turned a blind eye towards the matter and more appalling was the fact that the foreign office did not even know the exact figure of the Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia.
Murad Saeed said that the Saudi authorities had placed a large number of Pakistanis against several allegations in the ‘most wanted list’ as per their Exit Control System.
He further said that the Supreme Court (SC) was entrusted with the authority to interfere if the government failed to deliver its delegated tasks under the Article 184/3 of the constitution.
“PTI pleads to the CJP to take notice of the matter, thereby considering this letter as a constitutional petition and to direct the government and concerned institutions to submit the details of the measures taken in this regard,” he said.