PESHAWAR, Nov 6: Parents of a Belgian girl, arrested on charges of drug pushing, requested the Pakistani government on Tuesday to trace out the real culprits as their daughter was innocent and ignorant about the crime.

Speaking at a press conference here, Mr Piet Havwaert and Mrs Myriam Piet, expressed complete faith and confidence over the judicial system in Pakistan and expressed the hope that the concerned court would adopt lenient view towards case of their daughter, Joke Marie, as she had no past criminal record and was implicated in the instant case.

The girl was arrested on Peshawar International Airport on Aug 7 and from her luggage the Anti- Narcotics Force staff had recovered 3.5 kilograms of white heroin, the most expensive category of heroin.

She was charged under the Control of Narcotics Substance Act of 1997, carrying death penalty for such like offences.

Mr Piet said that his daughter was 21 and she had gone to Barcelona (Spain) for getting education. He added that she came back to Belgium in May this year and informed the family that she had fallen in love with a boy in Spain.

“Unfortunately, she was not aware that she was trapped by a group of drug traffickers belonging to Nigeria, who took her to Pakistan and put the contraband in her luggage,” he said. The Pakistani authorities, he hoped, would seek assistance from the authorities in Spain and Belgium to book the real culprits. The only crime of their daughter, they claimed was that being a naive person she trusted everyone.