SIALKOT: Police with the help of its Crime Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested an alleged female human trafficker who reportedly confessed to have killed her three accomplices.

Sambrial police Deputy Superintendent Asar Ali told journalists that alleged human trafficker Shoqia Aziz Bibi, a resident of Sialkot, had confessed to have killed her three accomplices Muhammad Ilyas of Pakka Garha, Muhammad Khalid of Qila Deedar Singh and Tariq Mahmood of Jaagowal village (Gujranwala) over money matters and dumped their bodies near Sialkot International Airport.

The DSP said a police team led by CIA DSP Malik Naveed Ahmed traced the suspect and arrested her from Sialkot.

He said the Shoqia Bibi had been running an inter-province gang of human traffickers for many years. He said she would charge hefty amounts from people for sending them abroad illegally.

According to the DSP, the suspect told the police investigators that her three slain accomplices had started cheating her in ‘business matters’ causing her losses.

Annoyed by their disloyalty, she with the help of her husband Suleman and an accomplice Arshad, killed the three men and duped their bodies in the vicinity of airport.

Police were yet to register a case.

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2014