Myanmar The Pakistani Embassy in Yangon (Burma) on Saturday, three people from the Pakistani city of Hyderabad in this Southeast Asian country. The youth He has been assured to be recovered soon and sent back to the country.
Pakistanis in Yangon, Myanmar Embassy Ali Sher, Assistant Consul, while talking to Independent Urdu on the phone, said that ‘These three youths of Hyderabad are not the first of its kind.
“We have recently rescued and sent back to Pakistan 14 Pakistani youths who were working with illegal companies like them.”
He assured that ‘those three youths of Hyderabad will be recovered soon and sent back home.’
However, he explained that his recovery is being delayed due to legal complications.
Three friends from Hyderabad, who were going to Myanmar (Burma) for work, went to Myanmar via Thailand on February 20.
Among these youths are 25-year-old Faraz Khan, a resident of Qureshi Colony in Hyderabad, 23-year-old Kashif Hussain of Hala Nala and 25-year-old Shiroz Khan of Falaheli.
According to the families of the youths, the youth had contact with their respective families for the first two weeks, which ended later.
Irfan Khan, the brother of the missing youth Faraz Khan, said in a conversation with Independent Urdu that ‘a few days ago, my brother called me from a new number and told me that these three were forced to contract a job with a firm and kept them in prison. Work is being done. They are not being allowed to go out.’
After this phone call, the families of the youths wrote a letter to the Pakistani embassy in Myanmar requesting their speedy recovery.
Irfan Khan said that his younger brother (Faraz) and his two friends were tricked into getting a job in Thailand.
We thought that if the brother gets a job abroad, then there will be some income and the bad conditions at home will improve.
‘The money to send the brother to Thailand was arranged by selling mother’s jewelery and borrowing some.’
He further said that a Chinese citizen brought the three friends across the border to Myanmar with reference to a Pakistani citizen in Thailand.
“They were taken to the rebel-held part of Myanmar. There, an attempt was made to get him a contract with a company, under which he would have been bound to work for one and a half years.
‘On refusal, the three friends were forced to sign the agreement and were put in jail.’
Irfan Khan said, ‘After that, we lost contact with my brother and his friends.’
He said that a few days ago, his brother called from a new number and told that the three were being kept in prison and were being tortured.
Irfan claims that his brother also sent videos of the company’s officials torturing various youths in Myanmar, which are very gruesome.
According to Ali Sher, Assistant Consul General of the Pakistani Embassy in Yangon, many areas of Burma have been affected by the war that has been going on for several years, while the areas near the Thai border, especially the Karen and Shen states, are in constant war.
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“These areas are occupied by various ethnic rebel armed groups and are not under the control of the Myanmar government.”
Ali Sher said that young people from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are tricked into the insurgent-controlled areas and they are made to do illegal work online.
Ali Sher said that the agents of these illegal online companies are present in Thailand and Pakistan apart from Burma, who send the youth here on the pretense of employment.
He explained that these areas are not under the control of the Myanmar government and there are legal complications in the recovery of missing persons due to contracts with companies operating illegally.
“However, the Pakistani embassy is trying to get them back as soon as possible.”
Terms of Agreement
According to a copy of the agreement obtained by Independent Urdu, the three youths from Hyderabad entered into an agreement with Burma’s ‘Yang Coin’ group, on a plain white paper with two thumbprints in red ink. Signed by
There is no signature or thumbprint on the contract from the company.
According to the terms of the contract, the monthly salary of the employee will be 150 US dollars and it will be possible to increase it by 200 dollars following six months and 600 dollars following a year on good performance.
“Employees will get half a day off per week and in case of resignation before one and a half years, each employee will have to pay eight thousand US dollars to the company and 1,500 to 2,000 dollars per month as expenses.”
According to the terms, the employee will be given four meals a day apart from accommodation, while they will have to work 12 hours a day and an employee will have to make one and a half million US dollars during the contract period.
In the conditions, employees are directed to refrain from touching the red-lined areas without permission or taking pictures there.
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2024-07-14 03:04:43
