Putrajaya urged to watch Indian, Pakistani labour here as home nations roil
IPOH, Feb 28 — The government should monitor migrant workers from India and Pakistan here to ensure their countries’ growing conflict does not expand to Malaysia, said a geostrategist.
“On the other hand, it is difficult to monitor the ill feelings of both nations’ citizens here in Malaysia as most of them live only within their own communities. However, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia senior analyst Shahriman Lockman told the daily that such a scenario was unlikely.
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