Turkey, on Monday, deported as many as 47 Pakistanis over charges of illegal immigration.
The deportees were sent to the Islamabad International Airport through a special aircraft en route Sharjah.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has taken 31 deportees under its custody, shifting them to Anti Human Trafficking Cell for legal proceedings. The remaining 16 were allowed to go home.
Earlier, Turkey had deported seven Pakistani nationals, on January 23, as they attempted to illegally enter the country. They had also been sent back to Islamabad through a special flight. FIA officials had arrested two of them as they arrived at the airport in Islamabad. In 2016, a US national, Barrett, was deported from Lahore after he had landed in Pakistan from Turkey. He was arrested through a joint raid by FIA and police officials conducted at a guesthouse on August 6, 2016. Barrett had returned to Pakistan despite being previously deported to the US in 2011.
The 33-year-old Alabama native had spent a period of four years in Pakistan, where he married a local woman and had two children, before being sent out of the country. He was also detained near a sensitive military installation.
The US national had said he had come back to Pakistan to explore the possibility of permanently moving here. Claiming he had been cleared of all the charges levelled against him by the apex court, Barrett stressed upon the legality of his 2016 visit to Pakistan.
