PESHAWAR, Jan 22: Security officials are reported to have busted an international human trafficking gang and seized forged passports, stamps and certificates of various universities.

The Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Federal Investigation Agency said they raided the offices of a company in Mardan and Nowshera districts and arrested two men, working as the firm’s managers. They said that the company operated under the name of Student Immigration and Medical Overseas Consultants.

FIA officials said that the man arrested in Nowshera was identified as Fakhar Alam, a resident of the Meenakhel area in Nowshera.

They said that documents seized during the raid included fake visas, blank cheques, degrees of different medical universities, stamps of principals of various post-graduate colleges and stamps of tehsildar and naib-tehsildars and tax documents.

The man arrested from the firm’s main office in Mardan was identified as Aftab Khan, a resident of the Bijleehar area in Mardan.

According to FIA officials, the owners of the consultancy firm, identified as Arbab Amir and Pir Amir, had not yet been arrested.