ISLAMABAD: A resident of Karachi on Monday requested the Supreme Court to issue directives to officials concerned to get his allegedly trafficked son back from Dhaka, Bangladesh to Pakistan.
Saleem, through his counsel Siddique Baloch, invoked a constitutional petition under Article 184 (3) making Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Overseas Pakistani and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) respondents.
He stated that his son Muhammad Sohail, aged 17, was a worker in a towel factory in 2008 where he met a contractor Babul.
The contractor, according to the petitioner, encouraged his son for working abroad and allegedly took him out of Pakistan illegally.
Saleem further stated that he came to know in March 2016 that his son was in Dhaka.
He stated that he had sent documents, including birth certificate and Form B to his son for declaring himself innocent and citizen of Pakistan before the High Commission of Pakistan at Dhaka.
He, however, alleged that all his exercise was futile because the Pakistani officials in Dhaka were not helping the family to get their son back.
Saleem added that his son had never been involved in any criminal or civil litigation at Bangladesh adding that his son weekly visited Pakistan consulate and was in their vigilance.
He added that his son was in miserable circumstances at Dhaka and required indulgence of the officials concerned in Pakistan.
The counsel Advocate Muhammad Siddique Baloch, representing the father of victim, believed that such petition involved question of public importance.
“Perhaps many of the sons of Pakistan might have been facing this trouble in other countries that are taken forcibly or through abduction and trafficking to other countries,” he said. He added that all people who had been the victim of human trafficking would get relief through this petition, which is filed under Article 184 (3).
