When the Pakistani died in the new Mediterranean tragedy, a question hovered: Why? | Migration
Islamabad, Pakistan- Rehan Aslam's family runs a transportation and car rental business and grocery stores. Rehan helped operate these businesses.
But five months ago, the 34 -year -old soldiers sold his car at a price of 4.5 million rupees ($ 16,000), that is, a Toyota Motor, who paid him to him. The agent will help him help him Jora (Jora Punjab, the province of Jora, Pakistan, is looking for the future of Europe.
He never did it.
Rehan (Rehan) is the father of two girls and a boy. It is one of the 86 people who boarded the Passenger Ship near Nouakchott in West Africa's Momori Tamania on January 2nd. The islands are an islands in the coast of Northwest Africa. Spain.
The ship stayed at sea for more than 13 days and was eventually rescued by the Morocco authorities, with only 36 survivors on the ship. Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco Rabia Kasuri confirmed that at least 65 Pakistani people were on the boat: 43 of them died and 22 survived.
Rehan is those who die.
“He just wanted to reach Europe in some way. It was his dream. He told us not to cause any obstacles in his way.” What he wanted was to seek better opportunities for his three children outside Pakistan. “
The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that it will be repatriated to 22 survivors of the ship accidents recently occurred in the Morocco coast, but for the family of the death, it is almost not closed on the horizon.
Instead, this tragedy was left in a series of issues. How do people die on the boat? Why do they go to Europe from West Africa-this is a new way for irregular Pakistani immigrants?
Why do people like Rehan come from families with financial stability, risk the risks of life first?
“Torture to death”
In December last year, this incident in the western Mediterranean occurred a few weeks later. In those tragedies, 200 people were rescued, but it was reported that nearly 50 people died or disappeared, including at least 40 Pakistani.
One of the most deadly shipwrecks in the Mediterranean occurred in June 2023. At that time, there were more than 700 people, including nearly 300 Pakistani people, and died of Adriana. Tilt near the island.
In the latest incident, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on January 16 that the ship was “covered” near the port city of the Sahara region controlled by Morocco. But the victim's family claimed that his relatives were “beaten” and “tortured”, and then thrown on the ship.
Press release
The ship incident covered with the coast of Morocco pic.twitter.com/0znvrjwf4m
-Foreign Ministry-Pakistan (@Foreignofficepk) January 16, 2025
Aslam, 49, said that the survivors from his village reported that the pirates on the other ship attacked them, stole their property, beat the passengers with a hammer, and threw some ships into the sea in the sea with a hammer. Essence
He said: “We can talk to some boys still in Dakhla. They shared how pirates repeatedly attacked their boats for a week, tortured and throw people into the boat.”
Chadhry Ahsan Gorsi, a businessman of Dhola Village near the Punjab province, shared similar accounts.
Gorsi lost his nephew, Atf Shehzad and SUFYAN Ali, who paid the cost of 3.5 million rupees ($ 12,500) to the agent to promote them Journey. The survivor told him the cruel situation of their death.
“These boys sold the land to raise funds, and left last August,” Gorcy told Peninsula TV. He said, “But I can never imagine that they will encounter such a terrible fate-the body is attacked, torture and throw it into the water.”
After the rescue of the ship last week, the Pakistani government sent an investigation team to Labart to investigate the allegations. However, their reports have not yet made public.
Pakistan Agent's agent ambassador Rabia Kasuri told the Peninsula TV from Labart that she had served there in the past two years. She said that investigators are still “trying to clarify the details of the day when the ship is trapped on the sea.”
A new route
Although it is one of the most fertile regions of Pakistan, the Punjab's districts of gujrat (Punjab's Distrops of Gujab's Distrops of Guja, RAT) region, manufacturing electronic products (such as refrigerators, sports The location of several industries of surgical supplies) is also the hub for decades that have been relocated to the hub.
According to the EU border and coast guard's Frontex, since 2009, the agency has begun to retain nearly 150,000 irregular immigrants from Pakistan to Europe in Europe.
Most Pakistani people usually go to the United Arab Emirates in this trip, then fly to Egypt and Libya by plane, and then try to travel through the Mediterranean maritime trip.
Acting special envoy Kasuri said the Western Mediterranean route is not common because the Pakistani who seek irregular immigrants. However, the choice of this choice may be the result of Frontex and Pakistan authorities trying to strengthen its routine.
Overall, according to the UN senior commissioner (refugee), nearly 200,000 people crossed Europe through various Mediterranean routes in 2024, while at least 2,824 people were announced to die or miss.
However, although these numbers are still very large, Frontex reports that in 2024, irregular transit points fell by 38 %, marking the lowest level since 2021.
According to data, although the Pakistani arrived in Europe in 2023, the number of the following year fell by half, because about 5,000 people entered Europe through irregular means of using land or maritime routes.
Munir Masood Marath, senior official of the Federal Investigation Bureau of Pakistan, said the Pakistani authorities have increased and improved to reduce the network of human smuggling since June 2023, in June 2023 to reduce the human smuggling network. However, in response, the smuggler has searched and found a new route.
“This is a cat and mouse game. When we are constantly tracking the smuggling network, they also find different routes to find and attract people to use these routes,” Maras told Peninsula TV in an interview.
Rehan flew from FAISALABAD in Punjab to Dubai. Then go to the Siyaba, Ethiopia, and then reach Senegartaka. From Dakar, the agent brought Rehan and others to their group, and Nouakchott along the north of the Atlantic coast.
Aslan said the agent was familiar with the family. Rehan did not face the abuse of the agent or his assistant, and was often able to talk to his family by phone.
Before his death, Lei Han's journey seemed to be better than many unlicensed immigrants. Aslan knew from his experience.
European “lifestyle” bait
Twenty years ago, in 2003, Aslan also tried the risk journey to Europe-through the land, Greece. He went to the BAL Road Branch in the southwestern part of Pakistan with the 50 to 80 people in the Gagrat region, and the smugglers helped him from there, and others crossed the border to Iran.
He recalled: “We have been walking for a few months. When we slow down, they (smuggers) threatened to kill us or sometimes defeat us.”
However, after nearly two months of walking and hiding, when the organization finally reached the Turkiye border, ASLAM gave up and decided to return to my hometown.
“I just told them that I couldn't leave anymore. I showed them my foot blisters and begged them to let go of me,” he said. They let him go. Aslan added: “This is a miracle that I am spared to difficult.”
Since then, the family has established a business, and Aslam, one of the five brothers, said they are financially safe. He said that the brothers now operate a successful car rental business and operate at the price of “10-15 cars” and the price of grocery stores. They also have a small piece of agricultural land.
Aslan said: “Our family has solved it, and Rehan helped me engage in our business.” “However, he decided to take risks (no documents to Europe) when he obtained a Canadian or British visa many times.”
International Automobile officials Maraz pointed out that although economic reasons play a role in forcing people to perform this dangerous journey, there is also a society. Families, even those who are financially stable, have seen their neighbors, friends and relatives. Their sons went to Europe to show off their upward social liquidity.
Aslam explained that wealth, better opportunities and the temptation of “living in a more fair society” make people bear the risk of life.
他说：“我们的社会有如此腐烂，人们不会为小事伸张正义。” “因此，经常，当我们的车辆在城市之间行驶时，交通警察阻止人们随机寻求贿赂。对于许多人来说， This is part of business here, but for some people, like my brother, they are enough. “
Gorsi also recalled his nephew to work in a construction company's Dubai, and he helped build the company before he decided to pursue the European dream.
“Both boys want to find a way to reach Europe. They see some lifestyles we managed to send children to Europe, and how to move them up. Therefore, these two also want to try luck.” He added.
Nevertheless, despite his journey in 2003 and the death of his nephew in January in 2003, Aslan is still theory of fate-almost as if he was in danger that caused the death of Rehan.
He said: “Our brothers have made a choice.” “Although there are risks, we still intend to allow it.”