Offloaded: 3 arrested for illegally staying in Turkey

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday arrested three passengers at the Allama Iqbal International Airport for illegally staying in Turkey. They were sent to FIA Anti-Human Trafficking Circle Lahore for further legal action. Nisar Mazhar and Qasim Raza, residents of Gujrat, and Muhammad Ayaz, a resident of Gujranwala, had returned to Pakistan via flight TK-714. Separately, FIA Immigration authorities also offloaded Shabbir Ahmed from Austria-bound flight TK-715 and Farooq Haider from flight EK-625 over invalid or suspicious documents.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 24^th, 2015.