PESHAWAR: One arrested on human trafficking charge
By Shafiq Ahmad
PESHAWAR, July 29: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested manager of a recruiting agency in City Tower here, while hunt for the main accused continued, a senior official told Dawn on Saturday.
The FIA conducted a raid on Friday on a prior information about the alleged smuggling by Mehboob Rasool, owner Global Career Network Immigration, from his office in City Tower, said assistant director of FIA’s Anti-Trafficking Unit Saleh Mohammad.
The agency had no licence for sending job-seekers abroad, the official said. However, the fake agency had cheated many people with promise to provide them lucrative jobs in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
The agency was also involved in preparing fake documents for students who wanted to study abroad, Mr Saleh said.
During the raid, the FIA arrested so-called manager of the recruitment agency Mohammad Kashif. Mehboob Rasool could not be arrested as he was not present in the office, the official said.
“We are conducting raids to arrest the main accused and soon he will be netted,” Mr Saleh said.
The FIA team seized blank education certificates of different institutions, original education certificates, photocopies of many Pakistani passports and blank admission forms.
A case has been registered against the two accused under section 17, 18 and 22-b of the Immigration Ordinance and section 6 of the Passport Act.
EIGHT PEOPLE ARRESTED: Eight people of two rival groups were arrested on Saturday. They were trying to escape after firing on each other in the lower courts premises, which caused injuries to one person, said an official statement.
The Faqirabad police was taking accused Farhad and others to the court of judicial magistrate Tela Mohammad Khan on Saturday morning. When they reached court premises, supporters of the accused Farhad and his rival Aftab group started firing on each other.
Shabeer Jan, a resident of Bazedkhel, who was a member of Farhad group, received bullet injuries and later shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital.
Those arrested from the Farhad group included Wali Khan, Mohammad Imran, Munsif, Niaz, all residents of Hazarkhwani. While from Aftab group, the police arrested Enzar Gul, Zakir, Fazle Rabbi and Jan Alam.
