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Repatriation: Deportation papers of OBL’s family completed
Preparations for departure of his Yemini, Saudi families in final phase.
Preparations for departure of his Yemini, Saudi families in final phase. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The travel documents of Osama bin Laden’s family members have been completed by the interior and foreign affairs ministry — his Yemini wife and five children will be deported back after serving a seven-day prison sentence.
Al Qaeda’s slain chief’s family lawyer Muhammad Atif said on Monday that the travel documents for his Yemini wife, Amal Ahmad Abdul Fatheh, and five children have been completed by the ministries and arrangements for the Saudi family members – comprising two widows and children – is in its final phase with authorities maintaining constant contact with the Saudi embassy in Islamabad and Riyadh to get their passports and tickets confirmed.
The lawyer added that after completing the remaining sentence, which is seven more days now, Bin Laden’s family members will be deported back to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, respectively.
“After completing their sentence, all of his family survivors will be deported to Saudi Arabia and Yemen as the process of preparing their travel documents is almost complete,” said Atif.
A senior civil judge indicted Bin Laden’s family on April 2, 2012 for having resided illegally in Pakistan.
Senior civil judge Shahrukh Arjumand handed down a 45-day imprisonment along with a fine of Rs10,000 each, to three of Bin Laden’s widows and two daughters, after the investigative unit of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) informed that the family had been residing illegally in the country.
During the proceeding of the case, judge Arjumand handed the sentence to widows Amal, Silham Sharif and Kharia Hussain Sabir; and two daughters, 17-year-old Maryam and 21-year-old Sumiya, revealed the family’s lawyer while talking to The Express Tribune.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2012.
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Osama’s children were born in Pakistan. Doesn’t that make them Pakistani citizens?
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“Repatriation: Deportation papers of OBL’s family completed”
What to the other side of the Army cantonment, does it have big compound wall?
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Did they have watertight evidence for this case that the children of OBL were not born in Pakistan ??
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Send them to Saudi. We don’t need them to bring more misery to us. It will be a bonus if we hire one cruse and fill all Jihadies in it and sail them to their head office.
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Why no action against those who allowed OBL with his family to stay in Pakistan for more than five years ?/?
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@vasan:
Being born in Pakistan does not automatically give some one Pakistani nationality. So all those people who are getting overly excited over this … your bubble has burst.
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yeah let them go, poor souls
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@Freedom Seeker:
similar treatment would/should be given to Sayeed and his family
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Why has pakistan taken 10 months to send the poor women home? Besides Osama’s children are indeed pakistani and they have a right to stay there.
Osam’s wives should be allowed to have a press interviews so they can tell the world how they managed to stay in the cantonment for 5 long years!
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Why we Pakistanis are so over zealous about all that which is actually damaging for us.So many times we have seen our people demonstrating in streets ,burning property on issues on which other population in other Muslim countries have reacted in very different manner.
Why this surge of love for OBL Children.Already our own children have suffered a lot because of the actions of AlQadeea and its founder.Let us have some pity on our self.
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So I assume they will be flown back in first class at the cost of Pakistani tax-payor. They already have been treated as state guests in a luxurious state guest house.
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@Rafaqat:
It has always been my impression that someone born in a country automatically becomes a citizen of that country. I can understand that a country may get upset with some children’s parents but the children are never punished for the sins of the father. At least not up until now. I know that I would be upset, and I am sure you would be, if the country of your birth told you to get out.
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Another prodigy of US met his fate and now his off springs future is uncertain, the person responsible of 9/11 met a controversial fate. Because of him lakhs of Muslims are being killed in the world by US supported by NATO. He misguided thousands and they picked arms against their Muslim brethren and damaged the Ummah beyond imagine. May God give us foresightedness( Ameen). Recommend
@tony c you are so wrong. If a Pakistani family happens to be in say the uk, the wife gives birth the son is not entitled to uk nationality unless one parent is a uk national.
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Sentencing was nothing but a window dressing. Now they will be deported, all expenses paid, at the cost of Pakistani taxpayers. It is just the cost of doing business.
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@Feroze:
OK, so their are a few dodgy countries. Britain has never been my idea of what we should strive to attain. Does Pakistan have to be a heartless country as well?.
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@Feroze:
Dear Feroze,
I have carried out some investigation since my last missive, and it appears that if you are British born it is your birthright and it cannot be taken away from you,
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