Lankans among illegals to be deported from Kuwait

Kuwait's Interior Ministry is preparing to deport 17,000 illegal expatriates belonging to 22 nationalities by the end of the year, the local daily An-Nahar reported yesterday. The Ministry has applied to the Central Tenders Committee (CTC) to purchase air tickets for the deportees as requested by the Deportation Department.

According to the memo made by the ministry's correctional facilities directorate, the tickets requested for deportees included 4,000 to Bangladesh, 3,500 to India, 1,000 to the Philippines, 1,000 to Indonesia, 1,000 to Sri Lanka, 1,200 to Egypt, 1,050 to Pakistan, 50 to Thailand, 50 to Malaysia, 500 to Iran, 500 to China, 100 to Yemen, 50 to Lebanon, 50 to Jordan, 750 to Syria, 500 to Nepal, 50 to South Korea, 50 to Somalia, 500 to Ethiopia, 1,000 to Afghanistan, 50 to Sudan and 50 to Turkey.

Official sources at the Interior Ministry noted that this would be the largest deportation process in any year since the liberation of Kuwait in 1991.

Kuwait Times