LARKANA, Jan 15: Larkana police have busted a gang involved in camel-kids trade and recovered five children and passports from their possession.

The Mirokhan police raided a tipped off house in new Karachi near Godra bus stop and arrested six persons, Sardar Mohammed Bhatti along with his wife Ms Nooran, Liaquat Ali, Nasir, Abdul Karim, alias Babu Mahar, and Bashir Bhatti.

On further search the police recovered five children, reportedly kidnapped from different parts of the country. They were identified as Kusar, 13, Ghulam Haider, 12, Ghulam Qadir, 7, Mushtaque, 6, and Salma, 4. Two passports, belonged to Ms Nooran and Shaukat (who was not present in the house), were also recovered from the house carrying the stamps of UAE.

They were brought to Larkana for further investigations.

The members of the gang had been kidnapping children and had established contacts in the UAE with the camel-kid traders. They had been selling the kids to them against Rs5 to 6 lac per child.

Ms Nooran told Dawn at the women police station that she had been to UAE three times along with children. However, she denied having involved in the trade of children.

Abdul Karim, alias Babu Mahar, said that the gang was involved in the camel-kids trade. He said that Rashid, son of Maulvi Sher Mohammed, a member of the gang, had already been arrested while sending two children to UAE and presently was at Landhi Jail.

The passport of Ms Nooran depicts that she had travelled to UAE in 1998, 1999 and 2000 and at one stage she had returned to Pakistan without children.