This is in response to the report “Stranded Pakistanis revisited,” in Saudi Gazette (July 29). Thank you Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi for making a detailed analysis of the issue of patriotic Pakistanis languishing in Bangladesh for over four decades. As you wrote many of the readers do not know the true issue hence they spread rumors in form of comments. As you wrote PRC has already submitted a proposal in 1998 "repatriation & rehabilitation on self-finance basis" which is based on their employment in Kingdom and Middle East and it also urged issuance of loans to build housing units for them, which they would return. Syed Ehsanul Haque, Online response