ISLAMABAD: A special court of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday convicted Jibran Haroon on charges of human trafficking awarding 14 years and charged Rs1 million in fines.

Haroon was booked by the FIA last year from Jehlum under Immigration Ordinance. FIA prosecutor Mohammad Khalid Naeem informed the court that Haroon is accused of taking Rs3.5 million from a family to settle them in the United Kingdom (UK).

He said that the family which includes a married couple and their school going children paid Haroon the amount and also gave him their passports. Haroon neither returned the passports nor has sent them to the destination, the prosecutor told the court.

During the raid the FIA also recovered passports and other travel related documents from the possession of Haroon, the prosecution claimed.

After listening to the concluding arguments, the special judge central of Rawalpindi announced the verdict.

Bail plea of Bara Kahu attack accused dismissed.

An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) of Islamabad on Thursday dismissed the post arrest bail petitions of four accused in the Bara Kahu mosque attack.

According to the prosecution, the accused are close friends of Zaki Allah, who attempted to carry out a suicide attack in Ali Masjid situated in Bara Kahu, on the first day of Eid in 2013.

The attack was foiled because of prompt reaction by the security guard outside the mosque, who shot the suicide bomber before he could detonate the explosives in his jacket.

Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2015

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