MNA Nafeesa Inayatullah Khan Khattak said there are reports that Chinese men in Pakistan marry with Pakistani women and later use them as prostitutes in their country.
MNA Muhammad Yousaf Talpur said he has information that a large number of Chinese prisoners have been brought into Pakistan and they are working on different projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
On this, Khan said that the Chinese companies working on CPEC project are state-owned companies and Pakistan embassy in China grants work visa to their employees. "This is not in our knowledge whether or not Chinese employees working on CPEC projects are prisoners," he said, adding, "We keep an eye on these people with respect to security point of view."
The secretary further said Ministry of Interior is setting up its own complaint cell which will receive and resolve public complaints regarding the attached departments of the ministry.
Ministry of Interior's Additional Secretary Abdul Aziz while briefing the committee which met with MNA Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz in the chair, about affairs and functions of the ministry, told that the Ministry of Interior has set up Special Security Division (SSD) consisting of six civilian wings for protection of Chinese nationals working on the CPEC projects.
He said CPEC security committee constituted under National Coordinator (NC) National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is in process of formulation of strategy document.
Aziz said the Ministry of Interior signed agreement, treaties and memoranda of understanding including readmission case management system (RCMS) to digitise the flow of readmission cases from European Union Members States (EUMS), treaty on transfer of sentenced persons with China and protocol on prisoner transfer agreement with the United Kingdom (UK). Agreement on transfer of offenders with Jordan and agreement on transfer of convicted individuals with Saudi Arabia are negotiated at expert level and are ready for signing, he said.
He further informed the committee that the ministry has framed various policies including Visa Free Entry Policy, National Internal Security Policy, Private Security Companies Policy, Bullet-proof Vehicles Policy, International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGO) Policy and Arms Policy.
Aziz said Pakistan Citizen Portal has received 36,505 complaints so far and out of the complaints, 31,351 have been resolved, he said.
State Minister for Interior Shehryar Afridi said his ministry will provide complete assistance to the committee. His ministry will submit its reports on quarterly basis about its performance before the committee, he added.
The meeting was also attended by MNAs Sher Akbar Khan, Malik Sohail Khan, Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti and Raza Nasrullah, senior officials of Ministry of Interior, Chairman National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Usman Mobeen, Director General (DG) Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Bashir Ahmed Memon and DG Immigration and Passport (I&P) Ishrat Ali.