Pakistanis in Malaysia live in miserable conditions where the embassy staff does not cooperate with them in issuing passports and providing other facilities.
These Pakistan is doing various jobs in plantation, marketing and construction sectors and receiving low salaries ranging from 600 t0 700 Malaysian Ringgit. Some of the Pakistani settlers who have business visas are engaged in their own businesses. A large number of Pakistani citizens have complained against the ill-treatment of the embassy staff and Pakistani high commissioner in Malaysia. They said that instead of providing facilities to overseas Pakistanis, the embassy staff and its high-ups are creating problems for them.
Talking to The Nation, a Pakistan citizen in Malaysia Johar Ali said that whenever their passports got damaged or went missing then the embassy staff adopt delaying tactics and instead of passport they were given out-passes which resulted in their ouster from Malaysia. He said that passport staff is charging heavy fees from the Pakistani citizens and sometime they are taking bribe from them for completion of their work. He said that mostly duration of their visas get expired due to delaying tactics in the provision of passport.
He alleged that Embassy of Bangladesh is better than Pakistan in Malaysia, who are providing all facilities to their citizen. In most cases, Pakistani citizen wait on main road to get appointment for their work while the embassy staff do not allow them to enter the premises. He said that Pakistani citizen wait in long queue outside the boundary wall and there is no facility for them to have a seat. Another Pakistani citizen informed that treatment of Malaysian with Pakistani citizen is laudable but the treatment of our own embassy staff is not good.
They do not consider themselves as civil servants but consider themselves, as kings.
He said on one hand Pakistani government could not provide them employments in home country and in abroad, the poor Pakistanis are being ignored entirely and no proper respect is given to them by the embassy staff.
They demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to terminate services of the Pakistani high commissioner in Malaysia and appoint honest and dedicated officer to serve the Pakistani citizens.
They also demanded the prime minister to further strengthen bilateral relation with Malaysia to facilitate million of Pakistani citizens.
