Islamabad:
The FIA (Multan zone) arrested two people involved in human trafficking and visa fraud as part of its continuous repression of illegal migration networks.
The arrests were carried out during the main operations in different parts of the city.
According to a spokesperson for the FIA, the suspects arrested were identified as Muhammad Muzammil and Sher Khan. The two individuals would have ran scams by promising a job abroad to citizens in exchange for large sums of money.
The preliminary survey revealed that Muhammad Muzammil prompted a citizen to pay 852,000 rupees by offering a false job opportunity in Saudi Arabia. Likewise, Sher Khan would have frauds another RS2 million individual with a false promise of employment in the United Kingdom.
Despite the important amounts of their victims, the suspects did not hold their promises and then hid. The FIA traced them and the orders of different localities of Multan. The smuggling of migrants has become more frequent and dangerous in recent years, the trend having an impact on the reputation of the country.
The government, under pressure to act to arrest the illegal exodus, had been adopted on February 17 the “bill on the prevention of the trades of persons (amendment), 2025”, aimed at modifying the bill on the prevention of the trading of persons, 2025, which modifies the prevention of the smuggling of the migrant law (2018.
