In Pakistan, Chinese men Pakistan lure of women in a marriage of convenience and force them into China for Prostitution. A case of organized trafficking in human beings, whose discovery is about to begin. From Islamabad S. Khan.
The certificate of marriage – this young woman from Pakistan married a Chinese
Basheer Ahmed only the Best for his daughters wanted. The inhabitants of the East Pakistan city of Lahore, belongs to the middle class. The 60-Year-old with a disability was, however, Worried whether he could afford the wedding of his two daughters financially.
“This was a difficult task,” says Ahmed, Qur’an teacher and the father of four children, the German wave. He began, desperate to find a suitable son-in-law for one of his daughters to look out for.
Then representatives of a marriage broker came to him and made an offer. “You said you had for my 24-year-old daughter Yamna Bibi, a Chinese named Chan Yen-Ming, a request. This was recently converted to Islam. Chan wool assume all costs for the wedding and he was going to allow my daughter to work in China.”
Graffiti is advertising for a marriage Agency here in China’s Jiangsu province
On 4. January married Bibi and Chan. “That was a big relief for me. After the wedding, my daughter was one and a half months in Islamabad, until their travel documents were there. We had contact the whole time, until it is flown to China.”
The marriage is a nightmare
Ahmed hoped that his daughter in China, will find a Job, so she sends money to her family in Pakistan. Because they were financially barely making ends meet. Instead, called his daughter one day, and wept. “You said that we had been deceived. Chan is not a trader, as the Agency had claimed. He had tried to force her to Prostitution. When she refused, he hit her,” says Ahmed very unhappy.
“I called the matchmaker. Your Boss is called David, but in reality he is Wei Lin Ping. I have informed him about the situation, but his answer shocked me deeply,” recalls Basheer Ahmed: “He said that Chan had paid two million Pakistani rupees (about 12,000 euros) for my daughter, and if I wanted to have it back, I would have to raise this sum.”
“I found out later that it was a criminal gang that was involved in sham marriages, human trafficking and organ trade,” said Ahmed. “But I have not given up hope, and me of employees of the Pakistani Embassy in China contacted. The have saved my daughter and for a safe trip home. On 3. In may she returned to Pakistan.”
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Yamna Bibi is sitting, while her father tells her story. The scandal, she says, compared to the DW, have destroyed her life. On your and her father’s request, their names are changed to protect you.
Organized Crime
Bibi’s case is not the only case of human trafficking and sham marriage-fraud – in recent weeks, a number of well-known. In the case of most Chinese men and their (Pakistan’s) accomplices boy Pakistan to convince their women to marry.
Many Pakistanis of the lower and middle class want to leave the country to find a better economic life conditions. China is not your first choice, but attractive enough for those who live from Hand to mouth.
For several years, more and more Chinese are coming to Pakistan, as China invests increasingly in the South Asian country. 2015 Beijing announced a project of about 46 billion US dollars in Pakistan. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is regarded as the most ambitious part of the Chinese infrastructure initiative “New silk road”. Beijing wants to expand its influence in Pakistan and other South Asian States and the influence of India and the United States weaknesses. Many Pakistanis are learning Chinese, the Chinese companies work in your country.
China’s planned economic corridor across Pakistan
RAID against the network of human trafficking
The news and images of marriages circulated quickly on social networks. You have to shake the population, the authorities are alerted. Last month, a Pakistani TV station reported that he got access to a marriage Agency in Lahore, the poor families and their daughters for money and visas to Chinese married.
On Thursday by Pakistan’s Federal criminal police, the FIA sought, among other things, a building that was suspected as a guest house for the Chinese, who came to Pakistan to get married to Locals. In several raids, the officers arrested a number of Chinese and Pakistani middlemen. The FIA wants to expand the investigation into the marriages of convenience-scandal now. “The Chinese gangs are very well organized,” said a FIA spokesman for the news Agency DPA.
Quite different it looks Beijing: The Chinese Embassy published in the Pakistani daily newspaper “Dawn” is a Statement, that “there is, after investigation by the Chinese Ministry of public security of women in Pakistan, the life after marriage with Chinese in China, there will be no forced Prostitution or organ trafficking. China cooperates with Pakistan’s security agencies to counter illegal marriage brokerage. We appeal to the Chinese as Pakistani citizens to be vigilant and to not cheat.”
Human rights violations
Pakistan’s authorities should be on alert in view of the reports about human trafficking from Pakistan to China”,” Human Rights Watch. The human rights organization warns that the pattern of these cases was the trade in “brides” from at least five other Asian countries to China “disturbingly similar”.
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The government in Islamabad must be vigilant against Chinese citizens in Pakistan, warns Asad But of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Karachi compared to the DW. “Human trafficking is a serious violation of human rights. Our government is forcing on the one hand, to close Western NGOs. On the other hand, she’s squeezing in the Chinese eye, the allegedly involved in human trafficking.”
Chinese citizens should be issued by the government of Pakistan, no Visa on entry. “For Pakistanis, it is difficult to get a visa for China,” said Asad But. “But every Chinese can travel without a precise test to Pakistan.” The Sino-Pakistan relations should be based on mutual respect.