Over 14000 Pakistani migrant workers languishing in GCC countries

Around 14,628 Pakistani migrant workers were detained and have been languishing in the jails of different countries of Gulf Cooperation Council who are considered Pakistan-friendly countries by Wahhabis and Deobandis across Pakistan.

This statistics were revealed through Labour Migration from Pakistan 2015 status report of 10 main cities of different countries launched by ministry of Overseas and Human Resource Development.
Around 5,171 migrant workers detained in jail in Abu Dhabi, 400 in Baghdad, 336 in Doha, 1,621 in Jeddah, 2, 927 in Kuwait, 1,655 in Manama, 284 in Milan, 2,177 in Muscat, and 57 in Seoul. However, none was detained in Dubai.
A total of 932,051 migrant workers were stranded in the destination countries without proper documents, and 48,160 irregular migrant workers deported back to Pakistan with the support of government funds. From 2005 to 2015, embassy or consulate officials or community welfare attaches made 4,200 monitoring visits to the employment sites of migration workers.
Most of the visits were made in Dubai (United Arab Emirates (1,863), followed by Kuwait (652), Manama Bahrain (496), and Seoul, Republic of Korea (400). The reports from community welfare attaches in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, and Riyadh have not been received yet, and not mentioned in the report.