Inquiry ordered into Pakistanis detention in Saudi jails

Islamabad: Zulfikar Bukhari, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Department took notice of the news on media about Pakistani women and children in Saudi jails. Women and children arrested and imprisoned in Saudi Arabia were showed in the clips circulating on social media.

Zulfikar Bukhari ordered an inquiry into the matter and asked the Managing Director OPF and Community Welfare Attache Jeddah to contact Saudi authorities for the release of Pakistani prisoners. Three children, Ayan, Mannan, and Bushra were released after a meeting of Overseas Ministry Officials with Saudi authorities. The children were in prison under the social protection department of Saudi Arabia.

They were detained in 2016 after their parents were convicted of bringing heroin into Saudi Arabia. Bushra has already been sent to Pakistan while Ayan and Manan are to be sent to Pakistan today.