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New Trends in Crime Must be Checked and Eliminated
Zaib Azkaar Hussain
Karachi
The criminal elements must be checked as they are making most of their opportunities in negative terms while taking advantage of ideally good relationship between Pakistan and China.
The two countries are extending their fullest cooperation to do good projects especially the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which is a significant development.
However, in recent days a chain of regrettable of incidents has taken place that shows that some criminals had set up a network trafficking of lower class women from Pakistan to China in the name of ‘marriages’.
Besides some other criminals used to cheat bankers’ customers in Pakistan. Some of the cases were sent to courts in Pakistan and the outlaws (who had committed fraud of millions of rupees) were punished according to law.
This situation, now seems very alarming, for a number of poor families and their daughters have been cheated under the pretext of marriage contracts.
A girl namely Rabia (a resident of Gujranwala) recently approached a court of law for the legal rescue adding that her Chinese husband had exploited her in the name of marriage. The girl reached back to Pakistan from China with the assistance of Pakistani Embassy in China and the local Chinese police. She complained that she had to face torture and other negative tactics by her husband.
The mother of the victim has appealed to the authorities concerned to take notice of alleged atrocities being committed against married girls by some Chinese men. The mother in fact has exposed a negative posture of newly developed relations under the process of inter-cultural marriages.
Another girl Tayyuba claimed that her Chine husband was a fraud one who instigated another Chinese woman to attack her after she (Tayyuba) had refused to go to China after marriage. Her husband apparently had embraced Islam but now Tayyuba stated he was a cheat one and had given up his belief later on. She asserted that a gang was busy in looting and exploiting local families under the name of ‘marriages’.
Another case of similar marriage has also been unearthed where a girl alleged to have cheated and smuggled in the name of a marriage contract.
There is no doubt that very good instances are there when the couple of two different countries got married to each other after falling in love. In March this year a young Pakistani residing in Germany returned to Pakistan to marry to a Chinese girl, who herself decided to turn to Islamabad. The girl as are reports, embraced Islam to knot with the young man. Interestingly, the wedding in a traditional Pakistani style. The newlywed couple later decided to extend their stay in Pakistan. Nevertheless, the outlaws and criminal of the two countries (chip of the same block) are over there to exploit and create a social crisis among the people of the two countries. A latest report says that around 12 criminals (including two women) were arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from Islamabad who were running the illegal business of marriages. These elements were involved in the smuggle of Pakistani girls to China in the name of ‘marriages’. The gang leader, a part of the network of miscreants was a Chinese national working for a project dealing with the constructions in Faisalabad. The man namely Mr Zan in fact was running a marriage bureau (in China) along with his father and his wife, in China. The local Pakistani people (chip of the same block) were helping against Rs50,000 (per marriage) and the so-called marriage bureau was receiving Rs1.8 m to Rs3.5 against each marriage. Ironically it is learnt that 18 girls have allegedly been smuggled to China by the recently busted gang. It is an alarming situation and if the criminal are not seriously checked and restrained from their illegal activities, it can lead a kind of sociocultural crisis.
It may be mentioned in January 2018 some China nationals were awarded one year imprisonment for withdrawing money from an ATM machine through a skimming device in Karachi. In the same year several men were arrested and produced before the courts of law
The judicial magistrate (South) that convicted the two men in ATM fraud case, had also imposed on them a fine of Rs50,000 on each convict. Earlier, these two convicts namely Zhong Xiaming and Zhong Xianquan were provided a legal opportunity to hire a lawyer for their defense. THE FIA had claimed to have recovered illegal devices and cash worth RS600,000.
The two convicts were arrested from Defence Housing Authority in 2017. Two of their accomplices were handed over to the investigators. However these two were charged with the fraud case. Another group of six Chinese accused of fraud were also arrested in January 2018 in Karachi. Chinese currency worth Rs650,000 was recovered from the possession of Xu Zhuping. These accused included Yu Genjo, Zu Zhuping, Zing Q Ping, Zhong Sheven and others who were arrested from the areas of DHA, Zainab Market and Tipu Sultan Road. and DHA. Identical incidents had taken place in other cities of the country. in the same year.
The court was informed that a 10-member gang was involved in stealing sums from ATMs to use skimming devices. It may be mentioned that in December 2017, during a couple of weeks, hundreds of citizens had lost millions of rupees due to skimming devices used by fraud people to get sums from Automated Teller Machine (ATM). A horrible aspect of the story was that the schemers had withdrawn money in China, while the most of the transactions were made in Karachi and Islamabad through the fraudulent scheme. It was said that the money was withdrawn in a manner that the skimmers used data from 579 ATM cards as earlier they had accessed the accounts by placing skimming devices in several ATMs. The poor account holders were not aware of the theft unless they approached their respective banks that informed them about the theft of their money.
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