Two more members of an airline from Pakistan slipped away in Toronto recently. This brings to eight such incidents in the past one year. It is not a recent or unusual phenomenon as all over the world people wishing to migrate to other countries without waiting for the time-consuming and sometimes expensive legal migration process opt for this kind of behavior.

It is not only airlines but ships whose crews slip away when they dock at a port in a country which attracts their desire to immigrate. When in Ottawa I met with a gentleman who later became my good friend and he narrated for me his adventure to literally drop into Canada to seek its citizenship.

He was working on a Pakistani cargo-ship when they docked in the Canadian port of Montreal. One night he was standing on deck and was suddenly seized with the desire to settle in Canada permanently and just jumped off the ship.

The rest is history and today his third generation is enjoying life in the capital city of Ottawa. This happened in the early 70s and at that time it was not........

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