SIALKOT, Aug 2: Twenty-one-year-old Khurram Shahzad, one of the several victims of human traffickers’ apathy, was buried in his native graveyard in Daska city along with his dreams of a bright future.

The son of a retired municipality official, Shahzad left his home a week ago for Greece via Turkey after striking a Rs800,000 deal with Sialkot and Karachi-based agents.

His father, Imtiaz Ahmad, says human traffickers lured several Pakistanis, including his son, with a promise of a bright future for them in Greece, minted millions of rupees from them and sold them to international human traffickers in Turkey.

In an attempt to push these Pakistanis into Greece illegally, the traffickers in Turkey put them in a container, locked the container and transported it to Greece. When the Turkish border security force tried to stop the container, the driver increased the speed of his vehicle and fled.

Fearing that the border force was chasing him, the driver left the container in a desert near the Turkey-Greece border and fled, leaving these Pakistanis to die. As nobody came to the deserted place, all of these Pakistanis, including Shahzad, died from suffocation in the container.

A few days later, it was only the border force, which traced the container, unlocked it, found several Pakistanis dead inside and informed Turkish government officials about it. Later, the bodies of these Pakistanis were transported to Pakistan.