Two human traffickers arrested

Published December 7, 2005

SIALKOT, Dec 6: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested two alleged human traffickers on Tuesday during a special campaign. Official sources said the FIA teams from Lahore and Gujranwala raided a house in Sialkot and arrested a human trafficker Imran Azam. The teams arrested another trafficker, Shahid Gondal, in a raid in Begowala village of Sambrial.

The sources said the two accused had earned millions of rupees by sending hundreds of people abroad illegally through their well-organized network.

The FIA have started a high-level probe into the case after registering separate cases against the accused.

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