FIA offloads five passengers

Their work visas were found to be fake during immigration clearance.

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore Immigration offloaded five passengers at the Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday.

According to the FIA spokesman, passengers named Ahmer Faraz, Bilal Hussain, Kashif Jawad, Umaieul Hassan and Sheraz Rias, all residents of Faisalabad, were travelling to Japan by flight EK-624. During immigration clearance, their work visas were found fake.

All of the five passengers were offloaded and sent to FIA/AHTC Lahore for further action. Further investigation is under way.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27^th, 2019.