American woman deported from airport

Published June 7, 2014
Benazir Bhutto International Airport. — File photo
Benazir Bhutto International Airport. — File photo

RAWALPINDI: An American woman, who had allegedly been ‘blacklisted’ by Pakistani authorities, was deported to Kuwait soon after arriving at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Friday morning, the airport sources said.

The woman was spotted by the Federal Investigation Agency’s immigration staff when the check-out of passengers arriving on Kuwait Airways was in progress.

After the immigration staff found out that her name was blacklisted, she was disallowed from leaving the airport, the sources said.

Later, she was deported to Kuwait on the same flight.

She was escorted to the plane by the immigration officers and handed over to the airline crew. It is not known why she had been blacklisted by the Pakistani authorities.

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2014

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