[nukkad] Main London Kaise Pauncha!

["Ragini Chaturvedi" <raginic@hotmail.com>]

Hi , Got this piece from another friend. It is shocking as well disheartening.

 

 

Thousands of Pakistanis and Indians try illegally to go to Europe or 
America in search of a bright future. Many illegal attempts ends in  
tragedy. Most of the aspirants want to travel to Europe either 
through Turkey or Russia. Here is the story of one teenager from 
Lahore, aired on BBC.
 
 
 
"I first approached a travel agent who demanded $200 for a visa for 
Kazakhstan...........Our eight-member group got an easy entry when we 
arrived in Kazakhstan. There I met my nephew who told me that he  
could arrange my travel to Germany. He was working there for the last 
12 years and had handled 20,000 cases like mine," he said.
 
He recalled they boarded a Moscow-bound train and reached there after 
a journey of six days and seven nights and bribed the immigration  
staff there to get entry.
 
"We stayed in Moscow for the night and then headed for Ukraine by car
 but they sent us back as we had no visas. We succeeded in crossing  
the Ukrainian border by foot and reached its capital Kiev. After 
three days' stay in Kiev, I gave money to an agent for a fake visa  
stamp on his passport. I was arrested twice in Kiev, the first time I 
was lucky and got freed. But for the second time I was jailed for  
three months where I was severely beaten by a drunkard guard. The  
conditions in the prison were miserable. When I applied for refugee  
status, they asked me to pay some fine which I paid and then they  
released me and asked me to get a Ukrainian visa in 15 days,  
otherwise they would send me home. Within the given period I arranged 
a fake visa. My stay in Ukraine lasted for one year and three  
months. By paying $700 to another agent we planned to cross the 
Polish border. We went in a car and when the motorway ended we then  
walked for three days through thick forest and then reached the  
border. We cut the fence with a cutter and crossed the border, but  
the Polish guards saw us when we were trying to help one of our 
members who was sick. The Polish border guards untied their big  
dogs. We ran but were detained. They kept us in a prison for 15 days  
but served us with good food. When we told them that we want to go to 
Europe, they stamped our passports and ordered our return back to 
Ukraine. After about three months, we succeeded in crossing the  
Polish border but were arrested when we entered the city and 
sentenced to two months.We applied for refugee status in Poland  and 
get refused. We paid $400 to cross the German border but again we
 were arrested. Then we applied for the refugee status and got  
permission to stay. We travelled to Belgium and Holland from Germany  
by train as these countries have open borders. So, there was not much 
trouble. Then I went to Spain with plans for onward journey to  
France. The French authorities caught me in the train. I filed a case 
for refugee status and got stay. Then I got a job in Paris and worked 
there for one month. I contacted an agent and travelled for eight  
hours in the rear of a lorry to cross the English border. Then the  
agent picked me from the jungle and dropped me in London". 
 

 (From story published in Business Recorder of Pakistan last week)