The ink of bilateral brotherly co-operation agreements reached during the very recent, as usual very successful, tour of our Prime Minister to Sultanate of Oman has not dried and people like Sh. Rashid still are to sing songs about this that there had never been more successful a tour that Oman has deported 698 Pakistanis. In Oman Indians are three times more than Pakistanis and half of them are staying illegally due to overstaying but they are hardly deported. According to F.I.A spokesman during the last two years Oman has deported 40,000 Pakistanis. If one goes to figures one will find Oman always deports Pakistanis six hundred and something. Last month 608 were deported. The day I was reading this in our newspaper same day on the internet I was reading a Sri Lankan housemaid in trouble in Behrain and Sri Lankan Embassy which is in Kuwait and no embassy in Behrain sent an air ticket for the housemaid to travel home. Last month the batch deported from Oman arrived in Karachi in a cargo boat Al Jadeed. They had to stand embrassing each other as cargo boat was very small. Due to congestion many became unconscious, injured due to jerks and due to hunger. Arriving at Karachi they were taken in ambulances direct to hospitals. A person who goes to another country illegally or after having gone legally over stays breaches the law of that country and deserves deportation. But no where in the world such deportees are treated as mangos and sent by cargo boats. The deporting country asks the Embassy there to make arrangements failing which then the deporting country send them under proper arrangements preferably by Air or through passenger ships and later claims the charges from the deportee’s country. Since rulers and authorities in our country have no interests with their own people hence they take no notice otherwise they can ask PIA to bring these deportees. On arrival confine them until their relatives pay the traveling charges. But our authorities will never do such an exercise as on retaining such deportees for some time for recovering of travel charges may lead to disclosure who send these illiterate people on illegal documents. 27/3/2005 a letter to editor appeared in daily Nation saying most of groups sending people illegally are operating from Gujrat.