SIALKOT: Continuing its vigorous crackdown against the human trafficking, the special raiding teams of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), led by senior officials, have arrested 17 more human traffickers including six notorious proclaimed offenders from Gujrat, Gujranwala, Jalalpur Jattan and Lahore.
According to the Deputy Director FIA Gujranwala Ch Khalid Anees, the FIA has tightened its circle around the human traffickers to save innocent people from their clutches.
He said that the FIA arrested six notorious human traffickers-turned-proclaimed offenders, including Nawab Din, his son Irfan Nawab, Zaman, Abdul Razzaq , Muhammad Afzal, Rehmat Ali and Iftikhar Ahmed. Besides, the FIA arrested 11 other suspected human traffickers, including Qamar Sajjad, Muneer Hussain, Asim Chughtai, Muhammad Afzal, Waheed Gujjar and Idrees Ahmed from Shahdara-Lahore, Gujrat, Wahndo-Gujranwala, Mandi Bahaud Din, Jalalpur Jattan and surrounding areas.
Deputy Director FIA added that the FIA team also raided at a money exchange in Jalalpur Jattan and arrested its owner Muhammad Jabbar, besides, seizing Rs 1 million cash in Pakistani currency and a big amount of different foreign currencies from there.
The FIA also raided an illegal education consultant institute and arrested two suspected human traffickers Imran Khokhar and Imran Baig. The accused were indulged in a business of sending the innocent students and people abroad, especially to European, African and Gulf counties through fake student visas after getting big amounts from them.
