PESHAWAR, Aug 13: The Federal Investigation Agency has failed to arrest human smugglers involved in sending thousands of job-seekers to Muscat through motorboats.

The law enforcement agencies of Oman have so far deported 10,006 illegal Pakistanis in the year 2005 and since January this year 4,641 job-seekers had been expelled from Oman, the sources said.

The FIA authorities have arrested and interrogated several sub-agents in different parts of the country. They have also interrogated the deported persons in Karachi on their return from Muscat.

Despite gathering complete information about the human smugglers operating at Mand Billo near Taftan border town in Chagai district of Balochistan, FIA officials have made no genuine efforts to arrest them.

According to sources, the FIA authorities have interrogated hundreds of deported persons ferried by Al- Khalid motorboat in Karachi who disclosed the names of human traffickers operating from Mand Billo.

The traffickers had their own boats and they do their business at a local hotel in Mand Billo and the FIA high-ups know about the place notorious for illegal activities, the sources said.

The FIA had so far arrested and interrogated several people throughout the country to halt the smuggling of job-seekers to Muscat, they said. But the agency had not netted the actual culprits from Mand Billo town, they alleged.

These human smugglers had hundreds of sub-agents in different town and districts across the country, who charged the uneducated youth between Rs10,000 to Rs25,000 for their risky voyage to Muscat, they said.