GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has confiscated properties and bank accounts of 12 human traffickers and blacklisted their passports for five years.

FIA Deputy Director Rai Nasrullah said the agency launched a grand operation against human smuggling and prepared a list of more than 4,000 traffickers.

A team arrested 12 of them and blacklisted the passports to prevent their illegal travel to Turkey, Iran and Greece.

He said the human traffickers would be punished with confiscation of property and bank accounts and their passports would be blacklisted for five years.

ARREST: Police claim to have arrested a person who helped a proclaimed offender escape.

Muhammad Asghar, a resident of Mandyala Warraich, was wanted in a record tampering case for two years and police received information that he was staying at residence of his brother-in-law Ahsanullah. Police raided the house from where Ahsan helped the suspect escape.

The Cantonment police registered a case against Ahsan and arrested him.

Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2019