Five Pakistani nationals have reportedly been detained for working illegally in Israel, according to the country’s top investigative agency.
They were doing so in contravention of Pakistani law. Pakistan demands a separate Palestinian state based on ‘internationally agreed parameters’ and the pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif serving as its capital. Pakistan does not recognize the state of Israel. Pakistani people are unable to visit Israel or work there because the two countries do not have official relations.
Except for Israel, every country on the globe is listed as accepting Pakistani passports on the document. According to Abdul Ghafoor, an FIA spokeswoman, the operation was started last month after officials tracked down the source of remittances and discovered tangible proof that these people had been employed in Israel for years.
The FIA official stated that the suspects were employed as helpers and car washers in Tel Aviv. ‘They spent four to seven years in Tel Aviv.’ According to the FIA, all of the detained suspects are residents of the Mirpur Khas district in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province and have been charged with breaking both the Passport Act of 1974 and the Emigration Ordinance of 1979.
The organization has been searching for three additional people who had been employed in Israel. According to the FIA, the suspects entered the Jewish state through an Israeli agent because their Pakistani passports could not be used in Israel. The official stated that ‘the suspects paid Rs300,000 to Rs400,000 ($1,090 to $1,453) per person to the Israeli agent.’
They would use a Schengen visa to enter Israel through the Jordanian airport. The FIA claims that to access Israel, the suspects would go through Kenya, Turkey, and Sri Lanka in addition to Jordan. They would pass through Dubai on their way from Jordan back to Karachi. According to the agency, ‘The suspects had been using Western Union’s money transfer service to send remittances to Pakistan.’
The news comes months after rumors of Pakistani products being sold in Israeli stores surfaced, causing a commotion in the South Asian nation. The revelations followed claims made by a New York-based organization of American Jews that Israel had received the first shipment of ‘food products with Pakistani origins’ in April.
Fishel Benkhald, a Pakistani Jew with a base in Karachi, the nation’s financial center, and three Israeli businesspeople from Jerusalem and Haifa, according to the American Jewish Congress, were involved in the transaction.
Furthermore, Benkhald shared a video on Twitter where he exhibited a shipment of dates, dried fruit, and spices originating from Pakistan, which he claimed to have sent to the Israeli market. Pakistan’s foreign office, in contrast, vehemently denied that the South Asian nation had ‘exported’ any such commodities and reiterated that there had been ‘no change’ in Islamabad’s position on Tel Aviv.
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