The operational licence of a Peshawar-based overseas recruitment agent was cancelled in Pakistan after reports surfaced of illegal hiring of security guards in Dubai... the company had failed to provide security guards with the promised jobs, housing and salaries... the young men had been asked to pay Rs400,000 (approximately Dh9,600) in advance to cover the visa costs and airfares...

When the visa [of Pakistani migrant worker Shah Faisal] finally came through, names were changed and instead of a company sponsoring him, it was an individual... there was no one to receive him at the airport nor was there any job waiting for him... there were many others like him who were duped... they had nothing to eat, lived in flats without water and power, and on other nights, slept in the parks... He recently found out that his visa had been cancelled on April 28 without his knowledge...

The fake visa and recruitment scam network has deep roots in Pakistan. "These young men have reported agents in Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi.there are definitely more, and we need a major crackdown and action from authorities in Pakistan," [added Ahmed Amjad Ali, Pakistan's Consul-General to Dubai].