GUJRAT: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) refused the entry of two Bangladeshi nationals on arrival at the Sialkot International Airport after they failed to justify the purpose of their visit.

A senior FIA official told Dawn that during immigration clearance of Flight G9-552, the officials checked two passengers, namely Bhulan Miah and MD Mahim Sarkar, who had arrived from Dhaka holding Bangladeshi passports with visit visas for Pakistan.

Both the passengers were refused entry as they had no information about the purpose of their visit.

In another case, a passenger from Pakistan was detained at the Sialkot airport after being deported from South Africa.

Muhammad Jamshed, son of Muhammad Arshad, a resident of Sialkot, arrived on emergency passport from South Africa. He had travelled to Malawi from Lahore Airport in 2017 and moved to South Africa where he worked and managed to get a South African passport through wrong declaration. He subsequently got a visit visa for the Netherlands and travelled to the country in 2023 where he was declared illegal there due to overstay. He was arrested and deported to South Africa where his documents were confiscated.

Jamshed got an emergency passport from the Pakistan High Commission in South Africa and was deported to Pakistan due to fraudulent documents. He was sent to an anti-human trafficking cell in Gujranwala.

Meanwhile, the FIA claimed to have arrested three human traffickers.

A spokesman for the authority said that Farrakh Abbas, son of M Nazir, a resident of Noiwala Chattha of Alipur Chatha, tehsil Wazirabad, was arrested in a case registered in Gujranwala in 2018. He had taken Rs2.6m from the complainant on the pretext of sending him to Italy. Later on, he sent the complainant to Libya from where he had to come back.

The other arrested agents included Azam Cheema of Sahuwala, Sambrial, and Mehboob Ali of Khiyali, Gujranwala, who were booked by the FIA in different cases.

Published in Dawn, May 17th, 2025