Chinese man caught with woman ‘sold’ by parents. PHOTO: FILE
The immigration officers of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) told Daily Express that while checking a China-bound flight of a private airline, a woman, SS*, told officers that she was being trafficked.
She told officers that her parents had allegedly sold her to a Chinese man, who was accompanying her, for a sum of Rs400,000. After that, the Chinese man, who apparently runs a marriage bureau in the federal capital, had snatched her travel documents.
She expressed the fear that the man may sell her to clients once in China.
SS* told the officers that her parents had previously attempted to sell her to an Arab man in Qatar but law enforcers there had deported her.
At this, the FIA stopped the two from boarding the plane and travelling out of the country and handed them over to their human smuggling cell in Islamabad for further investigations.
Fake documents
A man from Dir in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), was offloaded from a flight to Brazil from the new IIA on Wednesday after his travel documents were found to be fake.
While verifying the documents at the immigration counter, officials found the Brazilian visa pasted in his passport to be fake. At this, the FIA officials present arrested the man and transferred him to the Passport cell for further investigations.
Man with fake ID caught
Police in the federal capital has arrested an Afghan national who was allegedly walking around in the Red Zone of the city with a fake Pakistani identity card.
Sub-Inspector Muhammad Ishaq filed an FIR with the Secretariat police which claimed that he was patrolling near the Serena Hotel when he found a man acting suspiciously. At this, he stopped the man and searched him and verified his documents. A Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) bearing the name Sher Zaman was recovered from his pocket.
When he was questioned about his identity, the man conceded that he was actually an Afghan national but has had a Pakistan CNIC made. At this, the police officer arrested him and booked him.
Woman passes away
A woman, who had travelled from Gilgit to the twin cities passed away at the IIA due to a cardiac arrest. Airport officials said that the woman, Nusrat Nissa, along with her son Rafaqat Ali had travelled from Gilgit to Islamabad.
Upon landing at the airport, Nusrat suffered a heart attack. She was taken to the trauma centre for treatment but she passed away.
After completing the legal formalities, the airport authorities handed over her body to her family.
*NAME WITHHELD TO PROTECT IDENTITY
Published in The Express Tribune, February 21st, 2019.
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