PESHAWAR, Dec 13: The Dubai immigration authorities on Tuesday deported to Peshawar an Afghan national who was trying to travel to London on a forged British passport.

Alizada Sulaiman hag gone to Dubai from Peshawar by an Emirates airline flight last week. He was deported after he tried to continue his journey to Heathrow, sources said.

Last week, Mr Sulaiman had presented his Afghan passport and a genuine Dubai visa to the Federal Investigation Agency immigration staff at Peshawar airport, an official said.

In Dubai, he tore down his Afghan passport and presented the bogus British passport to the immigration staff for his journey to London, said Assistant Director, Immigration, Inamullah Khan Gandapur.

“This is not the first incident of its kind,” the official said.

The sources said British High Commission’s Air Liaison Officer Saimon Grove went to Dubai last week and interrogated Mr Sulaiman.

Later, he lodged a complaint with Additional Director-General, Immigration, Tariq Khosa and sought action against officials who had helped him.

However, an FIA official said the record saved at the Peshawar airport indicated that the accused had presented an Afghan passport here.

Mr Sulaiman was sent to the FIA passport circle, which registered a case and started investigation.

Meanwhile, the immigration staff at Peshawar airport deported a South African national who had arrived by an Pakistan International Airline flight on a fake visa.

An FIA official said Celftina Benjamin had come via Dubai on Sunday but she had a forged visa and she was deported the same day.

She was the sixth South African national in the past three months to land here with a fake visa, said the official.

An official of the South African embassy had recently informed the immigration staff at Peshawar airport about alleged involvement of travel agencies in issuing fake visas, said the official.