Karachi:
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has launched a crash on human smugglers across the country on the basis of information gathered from illegal immigrants upon their arrival from abroad.
According to a FIA spokesman, immigration staff at Karachi Airport asked four passengers returning from different countries. They were identified as Ahsan Shabbir, Mu-Hammad Bashir, Aun Muhammad and Haseeb Khaliq. They are residents of Gujranwala and Guja-Rat. Their names were included in the PNIL list. They arrived at Karachi Airport through international flights. They had traveled from Pakistan to Saudi -Arabia, Dubai and Azerbaijan at Umrah and visited Visa. The agents later transported them to Mauritania via Senegal through illegal means and routes.
According to the initial study, an attempt was made to send them to Spain via Sørute. Passengers refused to go by the ocean route because of the recent violent events and the boat Acci-Dent and preferred to return to Pakistan. The illegal immigrants had settled agreements with agents for millions of rupees to transport them to Spain.
The FIA is investigating the illegal immigrants about agents and facilitators. According to the introductory investment, the agents of Peshawar, Bahawalpur and Gujranwala belong.
The FIA has launched a crash on agents at the passengers’ point.
The authorities have requested citizens to travel abroad by securing a visa from the embassy of that country and does not hand over personal documents to irrelevant persons. The FIA has also requested citizens to visit the nearest FIA circle to identify elements involved in human trafficking.
The Federal Investigation Agency jumped into action after two back-to-back events with vessels sinking in Greece and inhuman treatment in Morocco, who left dozens of Pakistan illegal immigrants died, stabbing a lot of screaming over government’s effectiveness to cushion the network of human smugglers.
The FIA took into account the survivors of Morocco boat tragedy when they were repatriated from abroad and grilled them to reveal details of those involved in the rack.
Survivors from the Morocco -boat tragedy told a rioting tale of “inhuman treatment” who were met by the human smugglers, officials said.
The officials said they paid RS2.2 to 3.5 million each to the agents – belonging to different parts of Punjab to travel to Spain. Originally, they were sent to Dubai and then Ethiopia and Senegal at Visa. From Senegal they were sent to Spain by sea.
“After completing half of the journey by plane, they were taken to Senegal, from where they were handed over to the human smugglers to get further travel in Mauritania,” an official said. He added that the smugglers began to torture them from the third day of their journey on a small boat.
According to the official, the victims endured hunger and thirst. They revealed that the smugglers would throw the sick passengers overboard. The passengers said that for the last day when the boat sank, conditions were so worse that they had to drink seawater.
