Pakistani workers abandoned in the Gulf by factory owner

A group of Pakistani workers stranded in the United Arab Emirates say their employer, a Pakistani trader Mohammed Arefhas left them without money, food or valid visas.

The workers allege that their employer abandoned his textile business owing them twelve months pay.

While the twenty-two workers are pursuing the matter in a local court, in Khor Fakkan, officials at the Pakistani consulate in Dubai told the BBC the mission was doing all it could to provide them with humanitarian aid.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service