LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two wanted human traffickers in separate raids.
Sources told Customs Today that the FIA immigration circle arrested Shabir Ahmad and Haroon Butt from Lahore Airport while they were trying to flee from the country.
According to the FIA spokesperson, on the special directions of Director FIA Muhammad Usman, the FIA Immigration circle took action against such elements in the province and particularly in Lahore as the Ministry of Interior has directed all the departments concerned to take stern action against such criminals who are bring bad repute to the county.
The FIA teams, during checking of documents of the passengers, found some blacklisted persons in the flights that were ready to takeoff.
The FIA team offloaded them and handed them over to the special FIA anti-smuggling cell for further investigation and prosecution. Allegedly they were involved in sending people aboard on fake documents and through illegal ways.
Accused have been shifted to unknown place for investigations and soon they will be produced before the court.
