GUJRAT, Nov 27: Human trafficking is flourishing in the district despite the establishment of Federal Investigation Agency’s divisional office in Gujranwala.

A woman, Tasleem Kausar, living in Chakar locality of Lalamusa told Dawn on Sunday that four alleged traffickers, Mohammad Manzoor, his two sons Shaukat and Liaqat (Kharian) and Mohammad Bashir (Rawalpindi), took Rs2,92,500 in advance from the family in July to send her husband Babar Ali to Greece.

She said the traffickers asked her husband to take 2,000 Euros along as the money would be required for his journey. The traffickers then took Babar along with them, she said and added that since then her husband had not contacted the family.

She feared that Babar might have died or had been jailed in a foreign land, and alleged that instead of informing her about her husband, the human traffickers had been issuing threats to the family.

She said that she visited the FIA Gujranwala office twice to get register a complaint, but no relevant official was present on duty there. The woman then filed two separate applications with the Lahore zone director about the incident, demanding action against the traffickers and recovery of her husband as well as the money.

Lahore Zone Director Chaudhry Manzoor said that he had directed Gujranwala Deputy-Director Naeem Akram Bhroka to look into the matter and arrest the traffickers of Kharian immediately. He said that he had also asked Lahore Deputy-Director Azhar Mahmood for the arrest of other accused.

DACOITIES: Dacoits deprived two people of their cars and looted a truck driver in separate incidents in and around the city on Saturday night.