Gujrat: The immigration authorities of the Federal Research Agency (FIA) arrested a passenger bound for Dubai for having false passports from the United Kingdom and the United States, at the Sialkot airport on Thursday.
The official sources said that during the authorization of immigration of the flight EK-621, Zawar Ahmed s/o Muhammad Abbas de Gujrat, he found himself in possession of false passports of the United Kingdom and the US.
The passenger was delivered to the antihuman traffic cell of the FIA Gujrat circle for additional action. Meanwhile, the FIA arrested four people traffickers during ongoing repression in the region.
Those arrested also include a suspect from Gujrat involved in the sending of a son to Libya who later died in a boat tragedy on the way to Italy.
A FIA spokesman said that a notorious human smuggler/Agent, Yasir Mehmood from Goleki, Gujrat, had been nominated for a child’s trafficking to Libya. He had extorted a number of RS 2.4 million of the plaintiff for sending his son to Italy.
Another defendant, Muhammad Qasim aka Uumer Khan de Bho Ahsan, District of Mandi Bahauddin, obtained a number of RS 4.9 million of the immigrant, Muhammad Affan, son of Muhammad Zaman, for sending it to Spain for employment.
However, the defendant sent Affan to Mauritania.
In another case, the FIA arrested Malik Akhlaq of Khanpur Khokhar, Gujrat, for extorting RS 3.1 million to the plaintiff for sending his son to Germany with a job visa, but remained stranded in Türkiye.
In the same way, another trafficker of Imdad Ullah of the Gaswala Gala de Sui, the city of Rehmat, Garjakh, Gujranwala, extorted RS 620,000/ under the pretext of sending the plaintiff to the EAU for employment.
Posted in Dawn, February 21, 2025
