Immigration of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) managed to thwart an attempted closing of four women in Saudi Arabia under the cover of OMRA visas, revealing a human trafficking network involving a former manager of Punjab police.
Women were unloaded at Karachi airport after being noted to head to Saudi Arabia, where they were sent for forced work, Express News reported.
The women, identified as Shazia Bano, Zameera Azeem, Lubna and Sana Shehzadi, had already been sent to the Kingdom of the Gulf in similar circumstances.
The surveys revealed that the key character in the traffic ring was a woman named Asiya, a former Punjab police employee, who had financed the travel costs of the victims.
In addition, a man named Waseem Gujjar, an agent, had facilitated the stay of women and other expenses in Saudi Arabia.
In another operation, the FIA arrested two passengers, Ellis and Ryan, who arrived in Pakistan on emergency passports. The suspects arrived on the SV700 flight number, and their emergency passports have proved to be false.
The declaration noted that the emergency stamps on passports were fraudulent and that the citizenship of the two suspects was also considered questionable.
The two suspects were transferred to the anti-human traffic circle in Karachi for additional legal action, and investigations are underway.
Last month, the FIA immigration team thwarted a major human trafficking operation at Islamabad airport.
