"Pakistan has been trying to help end the war in Iran, but that effort is now creating problems with one of its longtime partners, the United Arab Emirates. The rich Persian Gulf country has started a large-scale expulsion of Pakistani workers, threatening to cut off a vital source of jobs for Pakistan. ...
"The Pakistani foreign ministry has denied that Pakistani citizens have been deported en masse and did not respond to questions about whether Shiites were singled out. The ministry’s spokesman, Tahir Andrabi, said the expulsions were of Pakistanis who had committed crimes in the Emirates. ...
"The owner of a contracting company in Abu Dhabi said immigration authorities ordered him last month to bring one of his employees, a Shiite Pakistani technician, to a detention center. The authorities revoked the technician’s visa and ordered him to leave the country within 48 hours, he said."