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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48873)	8/16/2005 6:02:19 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Twenty foreign students deported from Karachi By Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: The authorities in Sindh have repatriated at least 20 foreign students from various Islamic seminaries in the city to their home countries and arrangements are being made to repatriate the rest, a top provincial official said on Tuesday. Sindh Home Secretary Brigadier Ghulam Mohammad Mohtarram told Daily Times that the 20 repatriated foreign students were from Thailand, Malaysia, Uganda, Indonesia and the South American republic of Surinam. Another official said the provincial government had been sending such students back for a couple of days now. Brig Mohtarram said the authorities had taken steps to accomplish the task in the least possible time. “We have got tickets for another 80 students for their departure for their native countries and the process is likely to be completed by the end of this month,” he said. He added that a large number of foreign madrassa students had arrived in Pakistan on return tickets and their repatriation posed no problems, but the arrangements were being made for the others. “We are doing our best to get the job done and this is a continuous process,” said the top home department official. Official figures show that a total of 648 out of around 1,400 foreign students in Pakistan are admitted to madrassas in Sindh. Of the 648, 591 are admitted to Islamic seminaries in Karachi and the remaining 57 to madrassas in Shahdadpur town of Sanghar district. Mr Mohtarram said the federal authorities had set no time limit for the province with regard to repatriation of foreign madrassa students to their native countries. “But we are doing it in a planned manner,” he said. Staff from foreign consulates in Karachi had earlier visited various Islamic seminaries to assist the government authorities in completing documents of students of their countries to expedite their repatriation