US national deported to Dubai

FIA says DeHaven was being deported but was not allowed to leave as his travel documents were incomplete.

PESHAWAR:
Aaron Mark DeHaven, a United States (US) citizen who had earlier been arrested for carrying incomplete documents and later released on bail, has been deported to Dubai.

He had earlier been barred from travelling to the US from Peshawar Airport after he was found to be travelling with incomplete documents. He has now been deported to Dubai along with his wife.

DeHaven was arrested in February after police discovered he was in Pakistan on a visa that expired in December last year.


Sources in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that DeHaven was scheduled to leave Pakistan as he was being deported on the instructions of the Ministry of Interior, Express 24/7 reported. He was not allowed to travel as his documents were incomplete, but sources also said that he could leave if he presented the required documents.

The US citizen had been arrested under the 14-Foreign Act while an FIR had also been registered against him.

The 30-year-old DeHaven is married to a Pakistani national Rehana, and had also applied for Pakistani citizenship, intelligence and police had sources said. Police say that DeHaven’s company, Catalyst Services, was a security contractor that provided security and accommodation to foreigners working on development projects in the region.

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