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When an expat worker’s dream turns into a nightmare
Shams Ahsan     Migration is always painful, because it entails leaving one’s home and hearth. In many cases, migration is forced by circumstances. A worker migrates to a land of strangers because he finds the doors of opportunity closed in his home ...
Imran Khan due today
  Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is arriving here Wednesday morning to perform Umrah (minor pilgrimage) . This is Khan’s private visit and he will not be holding any public meeting, sources told Saudi Gazette. Khan will be ...
25 Indian workers suffer due to labor violations by sponsor
  Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — Some 25 Indian workers pleading to go home for the past six months are caught in bureaucratic formalities because their sponsor has not paid the Ministry of Labor SR90,000 in fines for labor regulation violations. Their sponsor ...
Saudi kills brother, friend
AHSA — Police arrested a 50-year-old Saudi man for killing his younger brother and his friend by shooting them in a farm in Al-Marah village last week. Eastern Province Police spokesman Col. Ziyad Al-Riqaiti said the victims are in their ...
Distress, deprivation of expat workers a common problem
  Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette     JEDDAH — The suffering of workers at the hands of erring sponsors has become too common a problem for people to take notice and too routine an affair to prompt many officials to act. When one digs into one ...
Family in agony as Indian worker’s body lies in morgue
    Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — The body of 65-year-old Ali Hussain, an Indian carpenter, has been lying in the mortuary of Al-Ahsa government hospital for more than five months awaiting repatriation.   His son, Saddam who works in Jubail as a laborer, has ...
Firm’s license blocked for failing to pay Indian workers
  Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette     JEDDAH —  The license of a general contracting company, which has not paid salaries to its workers involved in a Jubail project for the past six months, has been blocked by the Dammam labor office, according to the ...
No pay, no iqama, Indian workers want to go home
  Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette     JEDDAH — Some 20-22 Indian workers have stopped work at a project in Jubail because they have not been paid their salaries for months and their iqamas (residence permits) have expired and have not been renewed. “We are going ...
Father and son tied up inside vehicle
    AHSA — Police are hunting for a man who shackled a father and his son in their vehicle near Al-Mansoura village. Eastern Province Police spokesman Col. Ziyad Al-Ruqaiti said they received a report that a 30-year-old man and his child ...
‘Kingdom important pillar of India’s energy security’
  Shams Ahsan Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — India’s import of crude and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from Saudi Arabia is going to increase in coming years, according to an Indian minister. Answering questions from Saudi Gazette, Dharmendra Pradhan, Indian minister of state for ...
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