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[AcademicSaucer]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has expelled almost 40,000 Pakistani migrant workers in the last four months, local media has reported.

Over 39,000 people have been deported since October 2016 over visa violations and security concerns, the Saudi Gazette reported, citing unnamed interior ministry officials. As well as crimes including drug trafficking, forgery and theft, an unknown number of those removed from the country were suspected to have links to Isis and other extremist groups, the paper said.

The alleged mass deportations come after a year of strikes and other unrest in the kingdom due to unpaid wages following the oil market’s decline and subsequent blow to the Saudi economy.

Official Saudi statistics say that 243,000 Pakistanis were deported between 2012 - 2015. Mass deportations of migrant workers - which Human Rights Watch and other rights organisations say often involve illegal beatings and detainment in poor conditions - are fairly common.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...fears-attacks-counter-terrorism-a7578151.html

 

[BobLoblaw]

Did I miss them deporting their own homegrown terrorists first?

 

[tuxfool]

Discarding their slaves?

 

[Glix]

Discarding their slaves?

Yup

 

[Syder]

Discarding their slaves?

Yep.

 

[massoluk]

In a normal year, US might be in a position to issue a strongly worded letter opposing this

 

[capitalCORN]

How Saudi Arabia wretches over extremism.

 

[Shoeless]

I guess everyone stood up claiming to be Spartacus.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Discarding their slaves?

Yep. God's city, ladies and gentlemen. Lol.

 

[Kayhan]

So the kings of spreading radicalization are deporting people out of terror fear?

 

[WedgeX]

Good Lord. 40 000 people just uprooted.

 

[Mr-Joker]

Hmm funny since Saudi Arabia has a history of funding terrorist groups.

 

[victreeb3l]

This is really ironic.

 

[Septimus Prime]

Here's an idea: if you don't want more terrorists, stop making terrorists.

 

[ZiZ]

Discarding their slaves?

I don't understand thus logic sometimes.

If they were slaves wouldn't they be happy to be sent back to their country?

 

[gigantor21]

In a normal year, US might be in a position to issue a strongly worded letter opposing this

Pretty sure the royal family can afford their own toilet paper.

 

[Turbo Killer]

Fucking assholes, they don't wanna pay them so just deport them.

 

[capitalCORN]

I don't understand thus logic sometimes.

If they were slaves wouldn't they be happy to be sent back to their country?

I don't think this kind (or any kind) of emancipation is the stuff of Disney dreams.

 

[Abelard]

You know, Chris Hitchens and some others defended the Iraq War as some fight against radical Islamic terror.

Why couldn't we have just invaded SA instead?

 

[Messofanego]

Finally freed those slaves, ehh?

What about UAE, have they freed the Bangladeshi slaves, too?

 

[StrongArmSteady]

Yep. God's city, ladies and gentlemen. Lol.

Saudi Arabia is a country.... a big country at that...

 

[victreeb3l]

You know, Chris Hitchens and some others defended the Iraq War as some fight against radical Islamic terror.

Why couldn't we have just invaded SA instead?

Because it would be incredibly stupid and cause a bigger mess than Iraq.

 

[Wenger'sBakedBaguettes]

Did I miss them deporting their own homegrown terrorists first?

They do that as well; they've "deported" them in the thousands since 2003 to Iraq where they mainly blow up Iraqi Shia Muslims. A terrorist act that aligns extremely well with Saudi's state-funded extremist ideology. Saudi terrorists captured in Iraq is a very common occurence, the filth are everywhere there.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

You know, Chris Hitchens and some others defended the Iraq War as some fight against radical Islamic terror.

Why couldn't we have just invaded SA instead?

Saudi lobbies in Washington has politicians from both sides well "oiled"

 

[Wag]

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...fears-attacks-counter-terrorism-a7578151.html

They can come to the US because Saudi is not part of the ban.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

They can come to the US because Saudi is not part of the ban.

Indeed

 

[Corpsepyre]

We Pakistanis are getting deeper ramming every day.

 

[Temp_User]

So how is the job market in Saudi these days? Were the locals up to the task of doing the jobs that the Pakistanis were doing?

 

[Corpsepyre]

So how is the job market in Saudi these days? Were the locals up to the task of doing the jobs that the Pakistanis were doing?

Locals don't really work there. It's all Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians and Sri Lankans. Labour work, that is.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

I don't understand thus logic sometimes.

If they were slaves wouldn't they be happy to be sent back to their country?

You think Pakistan is a paradise?

 

[Spiral Insanity]

I don't understand thus logic sometimes.

If they were slaves wouldn't they be happy to be sent back to their country?

I'm speechless.

 

[caliph95]

How ironic

 

[Electric Eye]

I don't understand thus logic sometimes.

If they were slaves wouldn't they be happy to be sent back to their country?

They take their visas away on arrival so they don't leave until they are done with them.

 

[black_13]

How ironic is this, they export terrorists but are afraid of terrorist attacks.

 

[Glix]

So how is the job market in Saudi these days? Were the locals up to the task of doing the jobs that the Pakistanis were doing?

You should read up on this stuff. Its basically slavery. Its unbelievably disgusting. Many of these people stopped being paid by the companies they "work" for (its more like indentured servitude).

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-pakistani-dreams-turn-nightmares-workers-are-left-penniless-1170396118

article from summer 2016:

Last week King Salman ordered Saudi Oger to pay their employees, after it emerged Indian authorities had moved to feed 10,000 of their citizens, who had lost their jobs and been left starving in the kingdom.

Despite the royal accord, Khan feels no closer to being paid. Saudi officials have repeatedly failed to deliver on promises that the company will pay up, he said.

”Some Saudi officials have come and told us we will get money," he said. ”But they have been saying this for three months – so far we haven't received one riyal from them."

With temperatures soaring above 40C, the situation is swiftly becoming more than financial; Khan warned that it is developing into a serious humanitarian crisis.

He said water and electricity to the workers' camp was cut for months, but that Saudi authorities recently reconnected power, providing much needed relief in the summer heat.

However, tempers were running high among the workers.

”People have no food and no money," he said. ”If the situation doesn't change soon people will start dying. The workers are very angry."

I guess they got tired of them complaining.

 

[GSG Flash]

Probably a good thing for those Pakistanis considering how racist a lot of Saudis are and how badly they treat people from the Indian subcontinent and Africa.

But it is ironic because Saudi Arabia is probably the world's largest exporter of terrorism and extremism.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

Probably a good thing for those Pakistanis considering how racist a lot of Saudis are and how badly they treat people from the Indian subcontinent and Africa.

But it is ironic because Saudi Arabia is probably the world's largest exporter of terrorism and extremism.

The Saudi know nothing will ever happen to them because they have US protection and can even get european countries to vote them into the UN Human Rights Council