More than 15 people, including ten women and a Chinese couple, were arrested in a police raid on a guesthouse and a massage centre.
Five people, including three women, were arrested from the raid on the guesthouse in I-8/4. They were held for their alleged involvement in immoral activities, said the Industrial area police.
A police official said they raided the place after receiving complaints from the local residents and information from their informers about the place being used for prostitution.
A woman named Aunty Shamim, however, managed to escape from the scene, said the Industrial area police. They said Shamim is wanted for her involvement in smuggling women to guesthouses in Islamabad for prostitution. The police did not give details on how she was the lone person to escape during the raid.
In another raid, the Industrial area police arrested a Chinese woman and her husband for running an illegal massage centre in I-8/3. They also took into custody eight other Pakistani women who were employed at the massage centre.
Police said they arrested the Chinese woman’s husband for resisting her arrest. A court sent them on judicial remand, while some made bail, police said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th, 2012.
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Chinese are entering in all kinds of business in Pakistan. This is a good sign :-)
Illegal Massage center? Does the Interior Ministry issue licenses for this? Or did the Chinese owners did not comfort a Big Wig ? Now i want to see the reaction of the Chinese Embassy!
"The police did not give details on how she was the lone person to escape during the raid", You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out this one, sure, she was informed ahead of time by her higher up clients, and may be she left some hefty amount of cash behind for entertaining purposes. This sort of business is going on in cahoots with police and some higher up people who use their services like after hard day work, come there to message their tired old bodies.