SIALKOT: Bereaved families of four persons, who had recently drowned in sea near Turkey while trying to go to Greece illegally, have strongly protested against the human trafficking.
Muhammad Ismail, Bashir Ahmad, Allah Rakha, Muhammad Ishaq and others, while talking to the Customs Today said that about a month has passed and they had not received bodies of their relatives, who had reportedly been drowned in deep sea between Turkey and Greece.
“Every moment we have been dying without our loved ones. No one was telling us something about our beloved sons. We don’t know about the arrival of their bodies. We don’t know that will we be able to get or find their bodies,” they said.
The families said that four persons, Muhammad Bashir (38), Waris Ali (50), Ali Raza (21) and Ali Asghar (46) from Talwara Mughalaan left their homes for going to Greece via Turkey two months ago by paying heavy amounts to some Sialkot and Gujranwala-based human traffickers and their agents in Iran and Turkey.
The families were told about the tragic news of drowning of their relatives as their boat was capsized there while trying to enter the Greek coastal territories illegally.
The families claimed that this sad news about drowning their beloved ones was given to them by some sub-agents of the human traffickers, who also shown them the pictures of the dead bodies lying there in a hospital in Turkey. The accused had sent them abroad illegally after getting big amounts from them.
The families have urged the government to make all out efforts to bring the bodies back to Pakistan from Turkey.
