Adil Hussain, a resident of Khushab in Punjab, was imprisoned in a Tripoli jail over a case trafficking. According to human rights activist Ansar Burney, Adil had paid money to a local agent to travel illegally to Europe but was caught by the Libyan authorities and kept in jail for last two years.
Ambassador-designate to Libya Lieutenant-General (Retd) Javed Zia while confirming the death of the prisoner in Libya told The Express Tribune that they were trying their best to recover his body from the Libyan authorities.
“Once the body is received from the Libyans, the embassy will make all out efforts to immediately send it back to Pakistan, he said, adding Hussain was suffering from kidney problem and also suffered paralysis stroke.
Zia said that the embassy had been successful in getting 280 detainees released from Libyan detention centres. A total of 5,210 Pakistanis had been evacuated from the civil war-torn Libya, with 2,510 sent home through PIA and special chartered flights.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2014.
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@Anon: Yes, that is another such tragedy that keeps happening repeatedly.
@Ghaddafi: @Raj He is just like those Pakistani and Indian fishermen held by the other side
during the last 5 years 27 lacs pakistani officially left the country.....during the so called democracy
@Raj - USA: plus the staff of Pakistan Embassy did nothing for 2 years ..now a big rush to get the body .... The Ambassador should personally be held for negligence of Duty .
@Shafaq: Just yesterday over 500 Arabs and Africans died on a boat crossing the Mediterranean carrying refugees hoping to illegally enter Europe. The world needs to come up with a comprehensive plan to deal with all the poor people in Asia, Africa and the Middle East who want to go illegally to Europe for asylum due to economic and political hardships.
R.I.P.
I feel very sorry for this person. He risked everything and took extreme hardships, just to give his family a better life but died without any of his family near him and he has not seen them for two years. It is heartbreaking. May his family find the strength to deal with this tragic situation.
I wish our own country should have such better job opportunities that no single man ever think to leave his family and life here and take pain in foreign country by working so hard only to earn and give better life to his family at the cost of his own sufferings. R.I.P Mr. Adil Hussain and May Allah grant patience to his family.