It happened in year 1994 Month April or May,
while I was travelling for my first foreign employment in Doha Qatar.
I have heard then, people like beggars &
vendors coming near to airplanes when airplanes are land at Karachi airport.
Our airplane of Pakistan airline was travelling
from Colombo flying through Karachi to Doha. There will be another airplane
to come from Manila and passengers from both airplanes have to get on broad
in to one Pakistan airliner destined to Qatar.
Our airplane landed bit earlier and we were taken to a hotel until the arrival
of another plane from Manila. When it was getting dark, we were taken back
to airport and we were about to be aboard to the destined air plane. Passengers
coming from Manila also now arrived. The whole crowd of passengers is down
near the Pakistan Airliner destined to Doha Airport. This was a time when
mobile phones were not in use.
Then there was a group of around seven people wearing Pakistan national
dress came with riffles and shouting in Urdu and commanding the passengers.
I didn't know what they were talking. Among our crowd there were Sri Lankan
ladies who had gone earlier time to Gulf and could understand the language
they are talking. So, they were translating what these looters were talking.
They told all the crowd the leave their baggage, money and jewelry passengers
were wearing.
Everybody was upset. This was a looting. They want us to leave everything
on the ground and leave the airport. Passengers found no solution, no police
officers in the vicinity. Finally, people gathered all their belongings
to a heap.
I told Sri Lankan ladies to communicate what I was saying. I said that the
Sri Lankans living in Qatar had called for a Demon sorcerer to hold a satanic
ritual for the benefit of Sri Lankans living in Qatar, and I started dancing
and reciting Satanic rituals, pretending that I was in a spell. (When I
was a child, we children were imitating such rituals for fun.) While I was
reciting the stanza, I told others also to take part. Also, we communicated
to passengers who came from the Philippines to follow the chorus.
I told the looters that it is bad for them also if I don't conduct the ritual
and leave. I told them I have to perform it here at this spot at least before
we leave. So they allowed me to do it. While I was reciting the stanza I
instructed passengers on what to do next. This was communicated to Philippine
passengers also.
I told some of them to come closer kneel and stay in prayer position while
I was reciting others had to repeat certain verses. The Philippines also
followed my instructions. Now the looters are guiding around very closer
to me. I told them to hold their guns properly until I finished the ritual.
All of a sudden, I kick on one looter & he loses his rifle from his
hand. I told someone else to take the gun. But there were no Sri Lankans
who came forward but the Philippine guys did it. While reciting the stanza,
one by one I kicked at several looters, losing his gun from the grip and
we got them at gunpoint, finally we acquired all the guns. Now we targeted
looters, they are under our control now. I asked the police to come and
arrest these people. A policeman came, but he refused to capture them because
they were more powerful than the police. I told him to bring shackles and
he brought 4 shackles. Now our crowd is powerful. We shackled all seven
looters and the policeman in line, then took them with us into the airplane.
When we landed in Doha, we handed over these looters to the Qatar government
officer at the airport.
These are not fiction - But real-life stories. You can check it in the history
if these are recorded in some manner.
