The Federal Investigation Company (FIA) has issued its first journey advisory in 20 years, as a part of makes an attempt to curb human trafficking.
The FIA Headquarters has despatched a letter to Deputy Administrators of Immigration throughout the nation, instructing strict monitoring of passengers from 15 nations, 9 cities in Pakistan, and two airways.
For the primary time, the advisory focuses on tightening surveillance on passengers aged between 15 to 40 years travelling overseas. Strict checks have been ordered for younger passengers touring with FlyDubai and Ethiopian Airways.
Passengers from Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Kenya, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt are to bear thorough scrutiny.
The letter additionally contains profiling of passengers from Libya, Iran, Mauritania, Iraq, Turkiye, Qatar, Kuwait, and Kyrgyzstan. These 15 nations have been utilized by Pakistanis as transit factors for human trafficking to Europe.
The motion of passengers with vacationer, non secular, or instructional visas to those nations is being reviewed. The advisory was ready based mostly on the evaluation of the IBMS database from July to December.
In accordance with the advisory, passengers from Mandi Bahauddin, Gujarat, Sialkot, Gujranwala, and Bimber needs to be intently monitored. Profiling measures for passengers from Jhelum, Toba Tek Singh, Hafizabad, and Sheikhupura must also be enhanced.
A radical examination of return tickets, resort bookings, and all paperwork has been ordered. Particular consideration needs to be given to paperwork for go to or vacationer visas. Suspicious passengers needs to be interviewed relating to their journey function and monetary preparations.
FIA officers have emphasised that detailed data of suspicious passengers should be maintained, and any irregularities needs to be reported instantly.
Beforehand, FIA claimed on Friday to have thwarted a serious human trafficking try at Islamabad Airport underneath the guise of Umrah visas, offloading and detaining 5 people, together with a 16-year-old boy.
The suspects have been trying to journey to Saudi Arabia and Libya earlier than travelling by sea to Italy. The Company has already initiated strict screening procedures at airports and borders to fight human trafficking.
Throughout one such test at Islamabad Airport, the immigration officers discovered that 5 suspicious passengers together with Miraj Khan, Usman Khan, Asad Ali and Murtaza Ali have been travelling on Umrah visas to Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered a coordinated and holistic method in direction of capturing and punishing these concerned in human trafficking, as he assigned numerous duties to the ministries of legislation, inside, info and overseas affairs on this regard.
Chairing a overview assembly on measures taken towards human trafficking within the nation, the prime minister appreciated latest actions taken by the FIA towards officers concerned on this heinous crime.