PESHAWAR, Sept 15: The immigration authorities at Peshawar International Airport on Thursday deported a South African woman, who had landed here with forged visa, a senior official said. Avril Rachel Swaim of Capetown carrying passport No CO-1389538, reached here via Dubai at 9am and was deported by the same flight after investigation by the immigration cell of Federal Investigation Agency, said Assistant Director Immigration Inamullah Khan Gandapur.

She was the third South African woman who came on fake visa and deported to her country over the past few days.

A Nigerian woman was also deported last week on the same charges, said the FIA official. All the women wanted to go to Lahore but they landed at Peshawar International Airport, he added.

During the interrogation, Mrs Swaim said that she had a plan to visit Lahore and purchase some electronic equipment. She added that her husband had got the visa through a local travel-agent in Cape Town.

Mr Gandapur said that the fake visa was confirmed by the immigration office in Karachi.

Official sources said that the FIA passport cell had also registered cases against two persons who travelled to Pakistan on passports with changed pictures.

Noor Mohammad son of Musa Khan, a resident of Phandu Road in Peshawar, reached here from Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

He had changed his picture on green passport No KD-22724 issued to Hafiz Abdur Rasheed, son of Mohammad Bashir, a resident of Sialkot.

Noor Mohammad told the interrogators that he travelled on the passport to Dubai on Dec 30, 2004 from Lahore and later went to Cyprus.

Meanwhile, Karimullah son of Wali Mohammad, a resident of Sardar Ghari in Peshawar, who was also arrested when he landed at Peshawar on Wednesday, said that he travelled on passport No KE-075806 issued to Kamal Ahmad son of Alamzeb. But every time he changed the picture and travelled to different countries, he confessed. The FIA passport cell had registered a case against him.