Deported: 34 more arrive from Greece, Turkey

ISLAMABAD: Thirty four deportees from Greece and Turkey reached back here on Thursday. Four of them arrived from Greece on Gulf Air, GF-770, through International Organisation for Migration. One out of them was holding a machine readable passport. Thirty deportees arrived from Turkey on Emirates, EK-612, on emergency passports. As per new policy of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), agents of these deportees were now being charged in FIR, while the deportees were being treated well and served water and food. The deportees had been shifted to the FIA Anti-Human Trafficking Cell. All of them used land routes to travel to Greece and Turkey, an FIA official said. With the arrival of these 34 deportees, the total has reached 73 in two consecutive days. On May 25, 39 deportees had arrived from Turkey.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2016.