Pakistan and China bust human trafficking ring disguised as marriage proposals

[Lincoln]

Good step. Human traffickers need to be caught as well and punished, regardless of nationality.

 

[Yankee-stani]

@Feng Leng

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Pakistani girls already posted video they are living Happily in China. Chinese husband is taking care of them .They rejected rumors of prostitution. There are many couples living in China happily.

 

[ghazi52]

China launches probe into 142 cross border marriages: envoy
May 14, 2019

Lijian Zhao, deputy chief of mission at Chinese Embassy in Islamabad, during an interview with UrduNews.
The Chinese Embassy in Islamabad in response to reports of fake marriages, forced prostitution and organ trade has withheld 90 visas of "Pakistani brides" and launched an investigation into 142 transnational marriages that took place in 2018, said Lijian Zhao, deputy chief of mission at Chinese Embassy in Islamabad.

The interview, published on Tuesday, was conducted in the backdrop of a crackdown against suspected Chinese nationals of their involvement in alleged fake marriages. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has over the past fortnight arrested scores of Chinese nationals and their suspected local abettors from various parts of the country in connection with its investigation into a transnational gang allegedly involved in contracting fake marriages between Chinese men and Pakistani women, who are later forced into prostitution and the illegal organ trade.

“Last year, about 142 Pakistani women applied for wedding visas after marrying Chinese nationals while this year, so far, 140 Pakistani brides have applied for such visas, ” the envoy said, indicating a drastic increase this year. The embassy has withheld at least 90 visa applications and alerted the Pakistani authorities.

Talking about recent reports of abuse, the diplomat denied media reports about Pakistani women being subjected to forced prostitution and organ sale in China.

“Lies are being spread on internet and the media. They are talking about Pakistani girls being sent to China for forced prostitution or sale of organs. That is totally fabricated and for sensational purposes. There is no evidence for that. Prove me if you have that kind of evidence,” he challenged.

He said that out of 142 marriages, only few isolated cases of harassment or torture have been reported. All the marriages, however, were legal and registered after due process.

"All the Chinese men came to Pakistan after obtaining their visas from Pakistani Embassy, then they obtained marriage certificates from union councils and then they approached registrar. In the fourth level, they get [their credentials] verified from the foreign ministry and then they get their documents verified from the Chinese Embassy. In the sixth stage, they apply for visas of their spouses, so all the marriages are legal," he explained.

He added that Chinese authorities were trying to provide a cover and support to the legal marriages.

“We are trying to track if there is any problem. We are ready to help those girls if there is any issue,” he said.

The envoy mentioned a complaint by a Pakistani wife, who wrote a letter to a Pakistani minister complaining that she was subjected to torture. After the letter, he said, the Chinese authorities probed the matter but found no evidence of torture. However, the couple decided to go for divorce after which the Chinese government provided the woman a bullet train ticket and air ticket and she was repatriated on May 2.

Zhao asked the Pakistani government to "review its visa on arrival policy for Chinese businessmen" as some marriage bureaus in Pakistan are "misusing" it.

He said the Pakistani authorities should probe the role of those institutions and chambers of commerce and industries which are inviting fake businessmen who are actually coming to Pakistan in search of wives.

The envoy said that a mechanism has been devised during a recent visit of a Chinese task force to Pakistan, under which any Pakistani can seek help from Chinese authorities via telephone in connection with the marriages.

"The government of China and police will help if there is any problem."

"Probe into the new cases is also underway and if a crime is found, it will not be tolerated and we will support Pakistan law enforcement agencies against those involved. We will not let a few people affect the Pakistan-China friendship."

'We have to protect our girls: SMQ

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday, while talking to reporters, said that local authorities were in contact with Chinese diplomatic officials and were taking steps to resolve the issue of fake marriages.

"We have to protect our girls and we also have to protect our bilateral relations," the minister said.

He said that the two sides wanted to avoid the implications of the problem and also wanted to foil the designs of those powers who were fanning the issue. "The element who wants to affect the bilateral relations between Pakistan and China is also playing a role in this," he said.

"We have to handle both the issues and we are trying to resolve them in an amicable manner."

 

[Desert Fox]

Chinese don't even see the girls before marrying, don't even know kalima yet claim to be Muslim convert,

Some will probably call this wishful thinking or impractical, but I believe there should be a requirement for every foreign male "convert" to prove his commitment to being a Muslim at the time of the nikah, or preferably earlier in the getting-to-know-the-girl-and-her-family process, to recite at least one long chapter of the Quran with proficiency (with at least two persons familiar with Quranic recitation present) and a certification can be approved to validate that this person passed this test. If the man is a genuine convert and really wishes to marry the girl this will be no issue for him and in fact it will be a win-win situation; he memorized a chapter of the Quran and gains spiritual reward for it (which every Muslim believes in, ie. the hereafter, otherwise one cannot be a Muslim if one doesn't) and he gets to marry a girl he is genuinely interested in. One cannot lose in this situation.

This might sound ridiculous to some, but the matter is a delicate one involving the safety of our girls and no solution should be off the table. These fraudsters are reciting the Kalma one time (that's if they are even reciting it) and then prowling for vulnerable girls from desperate poor families to exploit.

And the gullible poor people don't even question them. In fact it is very depressing to see that there are even parents, fathers who are eager to get rid of their daughters and actually do sell them. Very unfortunate state of affairs. Our society as it is now is ripe for criminals to exploit.

It is a little more than buying a girl and that too without seeing her. The poor illiterate folk fall into their trap very easily.
Media sting op brought that to light.

Media sting op brought that to light.

Credit to them where credit is due if this is the case. They should just tone down the flammatory rhetoric when we don't know for certain that the men caught were all guilty. And in light of the geostrategic situation of Pakistan we should tread this issue carefully and not act irrationally out of emotional distress, which is very much understandable in this matter, but it should be channeled in the appropriate direction.

 

[Feng Leng]

“Last year, about 142 Pakistani women applied for wedding visas after marrying Chinese nationals while this year, so far, 140 Pakistani brides have applied for such visas, ” the envoy said, indicating a drastic increase this year. The embassy has withheld at least 90 visa applications and alerted the Pakistani authorities.

Talking about recent reports of abuse, the diplomat denied media reports about Pakistani women being subjected to forced prostitution and organ sale in China.

“Lies are being spread on internet and the media. They are talking about Pakistani girls being sent to China for forced prostitution or sale of organs. That is totally fabricated and for sensational purposes. There is no evidence for that. Prove me if you have that kind of evidence,” he challenged.

He said that out of 142 marriages, only few isolated cases of harassment or torture have been reported. All the marriages, however, were legal and registered after due process.

The envoy mentioned a complaint by a Pakistani wife, who wrote a letter to a Pakistani minister complaining that she was subjected to torture. After the letter, he said, the Chinese authorities probed the matter but found no evidence of torture. However, the couple decided to go for divorce after which the Chinese government provided the woman a bullet train ticket and air ticket and she was repatriated on May 2.

An angry mob of Pakistanis smearing your Chinese "allies" based on pure fabrications and internet rumors. You made a huge public relations mess and now the top Chinese leadership is going to critically examine whether such an irrational, dysfunctional country deserves our geopolitical support.

We even bought the lying b!tch a flight ticket home. What a waste of my tax money. Stupid lying b!tch should walk across the Karakorum if she wants to go home.

 

[Feng Leng]

@Feng Leng

It's too late. The Pakistani authorities have already let their entire nation go into an anti-China spasm over pure fabrications and xenophobia. The Chinese thought some stupid fake news report would die out on its own but it just got bigger and bigger because the grass roots wanted to believe the worst about China. Now Pakistan has revealed itself as a backstabbing, extremist, dysfunctional society -- a larger version of Afghanistan. China is just going to calmly and quietly step aside and refuse to involve itself in subcontinent matters from now on.

 

[maverick1977]

It's too late. The Pakistani authorities have already let their entire nation go into an anti-China spasm over pure fabrications and xenophobia. The Chinese thought some stupid fake news report would die out on its own but it just got bigger and bigger because the grass roots wanted to believe the worst about China. Now Pakistan has revealed itself as a backstabbing, extremist, dysfunctional society -- a larger version of Afghanistan. China is just going to calmly and quietly step aside and refuse to involve itself in subcontinent matters from now on.

People will sabatoage pakistan china relationship.. pay no attention but exercise caution

 

[Ali Tariq]

China is just going to calmly and quietly step aside and refuse to involve itself in subcontinent matters from now on.

Thanks God, you're not a decision maker, but a keyboard warrior. You have claimed too many times in your posts that it's due to China, that Pakistan is still standing on her feet. FYI, China has always played a neutral role. Just look at the China's role in recent PAK vs ind conflict...

P.S. Don't behave like indians, you're not a superpower yet....

 

[Myth_buster_1]

The parents of these girls should be arrested and tried under anti terrorism court! without their consent these fake marriages would not have happened.

 

[HannibalBarca]

“Last year, about 142 Pakistani women applied for wedding visas after marrying Chinese nationals while this year, so far, 140 Pakistani brides have applied for such visas, ” the envoy said, indicating a drastic increase this year. The embassy has withheld at least 90 visa applications and alerted the Pakistani authorities.

Talking about recent reports of abuse, the diplomat denied media reports about Pakistani women being subjected to forced prostitution and organ sale in China.

“Lies are being spread on internet and the media. They are talking about Pakistani girls being sent to China for forced prostitution or sale of organs. That is totally fabricated and for sensational purposes. There is no evidence for that. Prove me if you have that kind of evidence,” he challenged.

He said that out of 142 marriages, only few isolated cases of harassment or torture have been reported. All the marriages, however, were legal and registered after due process.

The envoy mentioned a complaint by a Pakistani wife, who wrote a letter to a Pakistani minister complaining that she was subjected to torture. After the letter, he said, the Chinese authorities probed the matter but found no evidence of torture. However, the couple decided to go for divorce after which the Chinese government provided the woman a bullet train ticket and air ticket and she was repatriated on May 2.

An angry mob of Pakistanis smearing your Chinese "allies" based on pure fabrications and internet rumors. You made a huge public relations mess and now the top Chinese leadership is going to critically examine whether such an irrational, dysfunctional country deserves our geopolitical support.

We even bought the lying b!tch a flight ticket home. What a waste of my tax money. Stupid lying b!tch should walk across the Karakorum if she wants to go home.

Can you stop a bit... it's becoming childish... just move on...

 

[Great Janjua]

Good step Ban all Pakistani/Chinese foreign marriages and lock the parents up for doing such disgusting business with outsiders for money

 

[Great Janjua]

Shut up wasteman

“Last year, about 142 Pakistani women applied for wedding visas after marrying Chinese nationals while this year, so far, 140 Pakistani brides have applied for such visas, ” the envoy said, indicating a drastic increase this year. The embassy has withheld at least 90 visa applications and alerted the Pakistani authorities.

Talking about recent reports of abuse, the diplomat denied media reports about Pakistani women being subjected to forced prostitution and organ sale in China.

“Lies are being spread on internet and the media. They are talking about Pakistani girls being sent to China for forced prostitution or sale of organs. That is totally fabricated and for sensational purposes. There is no evidence for that. Prove me if you have that kind of evidence,” he challenged.

He said that out of 142 marriages, only few isolated cases of harassment or torture have been reported. All the marriages, however, were legal and registered after due process.

The envoy mentioned a complaint by a Pakistani wife, who wrote a letter to a Pakistani minister complaining that she was subjected to torture. After the letter, he said, the Chinese authorities probed the matter but found no evidence of torture. However, the couple decided to go for divorce after which the Chinese government provided the woman a bullet train ticket and air ticket and she was repatriated on May 2.

An angry mob of Pakistanis smearing your Chinese "allies" based on pure fabrications and internet rumors. You made a huge public relations mess and now the top Chinese leadership is going to critically examine whether such an irrational, dysfunctional country deserves our geopolitical support.

We even bought the lying b!tch a flight ticket home. What a waste of my tax money. Stupid lying b!tch should walk across the Karakorum if she wants to go home.

 

[Rasengan]

It's too late. The Pakistani authorities have already let their entire nation go into an anti-China spasm over pure fabrications and xenophobia. The Chinese thought some stupid fake news report would die out on its own but it just got bigger and bigger because the grass roots wanted to believe the worst about China. Now Pakistan has revealed itself as a backstabbing, extremist, dysfunctional society -- a larger version of Afghanistan. China is just going to calmly and quietly step aside and refuse to involve itself in subcontinent matters from now on.

You are quite emotional for a Chinese. Number one did you speak to every single Pakistani to ask their opinion of China? No, you gathered your verdict from an online forum, especially those who are liberal in nature. Number two, just because some Chinese citizens are bad doesn't make China bad, or do you expect us to believe all Chinese are angels? Because I can tell you there are many bad Pakistani people. Furthermore, the Chinese need us just as much as Pakistan needs China, so calling us names is rather pathetic in fact you are no different to those dumb Pakistani's who believe in the west propaganda of Xinjiang. I have defended Xinjiang on this forum more than anyone as a Pakistani, and I have explained to various Chinese members that the opinion of people on this forum doesn't represent the common man. Just go to the streets of Pakistan and see for yourself.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Good , until this whole gang is caught and punished , both countries need to be extra cautious.