Two Tale of Pakistanis: Poorest Died Drowned, Tycoon Died also Drowned Because Exploration

We belong to Allah (God), and to Him we return (Quran 2:156). A tragic, stark contrast Pakistanis.

Karachi 2.44pm / Washington DC U.S. & Ontario Canada 5.44am / Athena 12.44pm / London 10.44am / Amsterdam 11.44am

We belong to Allah (God), and to Him we return (Quran 2:156)

Even after 9 days of breaking news in local broadcast Pakistan, and at least Day-5 half-mast or half-staff, the Pakistani government cannot know (SPECIFIC NUMBER) how many Pakistani died near the Greek town of Pylos. 

750-800 people were packed onto the fishing boat that sank about 80 kilometres from the southern Greek town of Pylos, but from 6 different local media of Pakistan, assume Pakistani died in this tragedy between 230 - 310 Pakistani, maybe bigger number. The boat, which left Tobruk, Libya, on 10 June, and sank on June 14th. At least 21 of those who died came from the Kotli district in Pakistan's part of the Himalayan Kashmir region, police official Riaz Mughal said. Two of the 12 Pakistanis who survived the sinking also came from the same town.

Pakistani authorities arrested 14-20 suspected traffickers. 9 Egyptian men aged between 20 and 40, accused of human smuggling and operating the boat, appeared in a Greek court in Kalamata and pleaded not guilty. There have also been allegations that Pakistanis were required to be below deck, while other nationalities were allowed to stay on the top deck where they had a greater chance of surviving a capsize.In addition, there have been allegations that women and children were forced to stay in the hold.

Observed a day of mourning Monday (June 19th, 2023), declared by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif's government, who was also really busy with the Imran Khan saga. The Pakistani flag was flying at half-staff, and lawmakers in the National Assembly, the lower house of the parliament, expressed their condolences for (poorest) Pakistani who were pushed out from their country because very poor, try to better life and better work (and future) in Europe, and ended with drowned in Pylos Greece.

But the magnitude of condolences was very overwhelming because another Pakistani, tycoon or billionaire Pakistani also died, also drowned, because of “tourism of the deep sea”: Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleiman Dawood, two out of five total died.

MSNBC’s Host Ali Velshi, a respected Canadian Muslim of Gujarati Indian descent, “Gujarati or Gujarat” region located between Pakistan and India, (he) protested the “clear difference” in news coverage between the missing “Titan” submersible (Pakistani Shahzada and Suleiman Dawood, and also other 3 crews) and more than 800 migrants who drowned the week prior (230 - 310 Pakistanis, maybe BIGGER NUMBER) — moments after he spent nearly 20 minutes covering the missing submersible.

Gujarat, Ali Velshi’s root, borders the Tharparkar, Badin and Thatta districts of Pakistan's Sindh province to the northwest, and is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the southwest.

I can feel his (Ali) anger, which has a root from Gujarat, very angry and overwhelmed because the global spotlight only 5 died (although including 2 Pakistani), when another Pakistani part of hundred died in Pylos Greece.

Back to Shahzada Dawood and Suleiman Dawood story. After several days of searching in a remote area of the North Atlantic, the five people aboard a submersible near the Titanic wreck have been declared dead.

The cause of their deaths was a "catastrophic implosion of the vessel", according to US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger. Wreckage of the Titan submersible was found 488 metres from the bow of the Titanic wreckage. This was 4 kilometres below the surface.

The movie director and submersible maker Canadian James Francis Cameron CC said he wished he had sounded the alarm earlier about the submersible, Titan, that imploded on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage, and that he found the hull design risky. 'I thought it was a horrible idea. I wish I'd spoken up, but I assumed somebody was smarter than me,' he said. The cause of Titan's implosion has not been determined, but Cameron presumes critics were correct in warning that a carbon fibre and titanium hull would enable microscopic water ingress, leading to progressive failure over time.

Those onboard the submersible were British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58; French veteran Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleiman; and 61-year-old American Stockton Rush, co-founder of OceanGate, the company that operated the lost sub.

Suleiman was afraid to join this exploration, but pushes himself to join, just to celebrate Father’s Day with his Dad Shahzada. Again, both are dead. 

Suleman Dawood was hesitant, afraid about embarking on the OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan, which imploded and killed him, explained his father’s older sister Azmeh Dawood.

He told a relative he “wasn’t very up for it” and felt “terrified,” she (Azmeh) said, but he ended up going because the voyage fell over Father’s Day weekend and he wanted to please his dad, a Titanic aficionado.

“I am thinking of Suleman, who is 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath … It’s been crippling, to be honest,” Azmeh told NBC News in a phone interview from Amsterdam, where she lives with her husband, Jonathan.

OceanGate company was the subject of lawsuits in 2018 by an employee of the multinational. According to documents accessed by CBS media, a former employee complained about the Titan's safety and ended up being fired.

For example, one of the five crew members still on the Titan, Frenchman Paul-Henry Nargeolet, confessed to his friends that he "did not trust" the safety of the capsule. The former employee who complained about safety is named as David Lochridge, who has embarked on a legal battle with his former company.

OceanGate fired Lochridge in 2018 and, in addition, sued him, citing a breach of contract by giving confidential information to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Lochridge said it was a wrongful dismissal, as his only intention was to ensure the safety of the submarine.

CBS, after analysing the documents, revealed that Lochridge was concerned about "exposing passengers to potential extreme danger on an experimental submersible" because customers "would not be aware".

Lochridge's complaint was joined by other OceanGate workers in a letter later in the year, in which they argued that the "experimental" approach could have "catastrophic" results if more attention was not paid to safety measures.

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