The Sudan Embassy in Islamabad on Tuesday contacted human and civil rights lawyer, Ansar Burney and assured him its all out support and co-operation for the early release of 60 Pakistanis from the private jail of Sudan.
Ansar Burney informed the embassy about the plight of 60 young Pakistanis on slavery in a private jail in Bageer near Khartoum. These Pakistanis are confined in private jail camp under heavy armed guards.
According to Burney, he has demanded of the Pakistan government to immediately arrest a minister from Azad Kashmir, who is allegedly involved in human smuggling, including these 60 Pakistanis to Sudan.
He said these Pakistanis paid huge amounts to a recruiting agency in Pakistan, allegedly owned by a minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which arranged for their visit visas for Sudan on the promise that they would get resident visas and a job in an oil company once they get to Khartoum.
But when they arrived in Khartoum on March 27, they were allegedly sold to an Indian agent called Ravi, who took their custody and kept these young Pakistanis in a private jail in Bazer and made them work on slavery.
According to information gathered by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International from Khartoum, when these young Pakistanis protested against these atrocities, the agent stopped the supply of food for the last one month.
They are surviving by eating only boiled rice and drinking dirty water and living in a miserable condition.
The names of Pakistanis are; Javed Khadim, Shamsher Hussain Shahid, Ramzan Ashraf, Arshad Mehmud, Kashif Maqbool, Ejaz Mohammed Hussain, Tariq Aziz, Imran Saleem, Mohammed Ayaz Khan, Haroon Parvez, Zafar Iqbal, Tousif Khaliq, Abbas Ishaq, Mohammed Jamil Hussain, Mohammed Atiq, Mohammed Basharat, Mohammed Khalil, Abdul Rehman, Mohammed Nadeem Khan, Jannat Hussain, Mohammed Yaqub Khan, Dilshan, Mohammed Bashir, Mohammed Shehzad, Amjad Khan, Aslam Khan, Iftikhar Hussain, Liaquat Hussain, Nazeer Hussain, Saghar Abbasi, Mohammed Rasheed Khan, Yasir Gulzar Abbasi, Mohammed Ashfaq Khan, Arshad Khan, Raja Khaliq Ahmed, Wajid Mumtaz, Basharat Abbasi, Raja Ejaz Khan, Raja Nisar Khan, Mohammed Shabbir Khan, Mohammed Irshad Khan, Zakir Mehmood, Mohammed Mumtaz Hussain, Mohammed Ijaz, Khalid Hussain, Khalid Mehmood, Kashif Fazal, Mohammed Ishaq Khan, Zakaullah, Nasrullah Khan, Nisa Tanaz Khan, Mohammed Iqbal, Mureed Abbas, Umer Hayat, Mohammed Sarfaraz Khan, Ziaullah, Samiullah, Zaheer Abbas and two others.