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PESHAWAR, Oct 14: The British authorities have deported the son of a provincial minister on charges that he had violated the country’s immigration laws last year, official sources confirmed to Dawn on Thursday.
Sardar Atique Idrees, son of NWFP Minister for Local Government Sardar Mohammad Idrees, who was carrying passport No KC-547142, was deported to Peshawar by an Emirates Airlines flight on Wednesday after the authorities there refused him entry into Britain, sources said.
Atiq, who travelled to the UK on an Emirates flight on Monday, was kept for a day at the Heathrow airport and was deported the next day, sources said.
He had already travelled to England twice. But last year he violated the British immigration laws and overstayed there for three months, they said.
They added that last year the British High Commission in Islamabad had issued him a six-month visa, but he remained there for nine months in violation of the laws.
He was travelling on genuine documents and visa issued by the British High Commission in Islamabad. But when he landed at Heathrow and the immigration staff checked his past records, they decided to deport him, sources said.
AFGHAN ARRESTED: An Afghan national who had travelled to Saudi Arabia on a Pakistani passport has been arrested by the immigration cell of the Federal Investigation Agency, sources said on Thursday.
Gula Jana, son of Ali Shah, a resident of the Afghan province of Paktia, reached Peshawar by Pakistan International Airline flight No PK-736 on Tuesday and showed his Pakistani passport to the immigration counter at the airport.
He was travelling in the name of Iftikhar Ali, son of Muslim Khan, a resident of Bazidkhel village of Badhber locality in the suburb of the city, with passport No KB-634221.
The lady officer of immigration, Sarwat Durrani, on suspicion asked several questions about the passport, which the accused failed to answer satisfactorily. During the preliminary interrogation, Gula Jan disclosed that he was an Afghan refugee living in Kotli Payan village of Hangu district.
The accused said that he had gone to Dammam, Saudi Arabia, on May 12, 2003, from Karachi airport by Qatar Airways after switching his picture on the passport. The immigration authorities sent Gula Jan to the FIA passport circle where a case had been registered against him, sources said.
