Human trafficking tragedy lingers on

Grieved families urge authorities to speed up search two weeks after the boat overturned in the Arabian Sea.

The grieved families of the eleven drowned persons from Sialkot urged authorities on Tuesday to speed up the search for the dead bodies almost two weeks after their boat capsized in the Arabian Sea.

The men were being smuggled from Gwadar to Muscat when the boat carrying thirty one people capsized due to overfilling. Thirteen men drowned when the boat overturned while eight were rescued and brought back to their homes.

A search operation had been launched to find the dead bodies but their bodies have yet to be found.

Meanwhile, The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have arrested two traffickers who were involved in smuggling people across borders from Sialkot.

Sajid alias Humayun from Sialkot city, who was wanted by the FIA in as many as 25 separate cases of human trafficking, was one of those arrested according to the Deputy Director FIA Gujranwala.

The FIA also arrested another accused human trafficker, Saqib, from Sialkot and recovered from his possession seven different passports and other fake traveling documents.

Saqib had been running a travel agency in Daska and was either directly or indirectly involved in human trafficking, PPI reported.