ISLAMABAD
\nAs authorities in Libya continue to clampdown on migrants arriving in the country for their onward journey to Europe in search of greener pastures, 14 more Pakistanis staying in the country illegally have been deported on Sunday.
\nAccording to the Libyan officials, all of them were made to board Pakistan-bound flight at Benghazi airport. On the other hand, Libya\u2019s Directorate of Immigration has said that its officials have recovered 23 passports from an Egyptian human smuggler, and now they are trying to figure out as to which countries these Pakistanis had gone.
\nThe Libyan government has tightened the noose around human smugglers and illegal immigrants following an incident of a boat capsizing in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece a few months ago in which hundreds of people, mostly Pakistanis, had lost their lives,
\nIn a tragic incident, a Pakistani belonging to Sarai Alamgir in district Gujrat has died in Libya in a gas cylinder explosion. 34-year-old Jamal Afzal, father of three, had gone to Libya three months back to earn livelihood.
\nThe news of his death cast a gloom on his family.On the other hand, Pakistan\u2019s embassy in Tripoli is in contact with the Libyan authorities for sending the corpse back to Sarai Alamgir. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD As authorities in Libya continue to clampdown on migrants arriving in the country for their onward journey to Europe in search of greener pastures, 14 more Pakistanis staying in the country illegally have been deported on Sunday. According to the Libyan officials, all of them were made to board Pakistan-bound flight at Benghazi airport. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n