ISLAMABAD - In a rare and first kind of development in the history of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the agency Wednesday arrested its own three officials and removed an assistant director for their alleged involvement in human trafficking only under the directions of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
The Interior Minister, the other day, had taken notice of a report that some Pakistani passengers travelling on fake documents had been nabbed in Istanbul, Turkey and later deported to Pakistan. He had directed the Director General FIA Saud Mirza to hold an inquiry against those FIA immigration wing officials who helped these passengers to travel from Pakistan to Istanbul and necessary action should be taken against the guilty. He had ordered to present a report to him within 24 hours in this connection.
The DG FIA after holding an inquiry held responsible Abbas Baloch Assistant Director; Afzal Niazi, Inspector; Aman Ullah, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) and Sajid Munir, constable for allegedly involved in this case.
Soon after the report was presented to the interior minister, he ordered the arrest of the three officials and FIA registered an FIR (first information report) against inspector, ASI and constable and all were arrested, an official of the Ministry of Interior said. Similarly, the assistant director was also removed from the airport duty and was asked to report to the FIA Headquarters. Departmental proceeding is being initiated against him, says an official statement of the ministry.
According to details, two males and one female passenger, three weeks ago, wanted to travel to Paris via Istanbul through a foreign airline on fake documents but were nabbed in Istanbul. They had flown from Benazir Bhutto International Airport for Istanbul, the inquiry of FIA said.
FIA inquiry held guilty the inspector, ASI and a constable for helping these passengers to travel on fake documents and later helping them to safely escape from the Islamabad airport.
There are hundreds of complaints that FIA’s immigration wing were allegedly involved in the notorious business of human trafficking and help the passengers to travel on fake documents after minting huge amounts of money but such kind of arrests were never made in the past.