ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: Immigration authorities at Islamabad airport on Tuesday offloaded a film and television artist and three other persons for trying to board UK-bound flights on fake documents, sources said.

The Federal Investigation Agency assistant-director, Sardar Abdul Azim Khan, said Ms Tasneem Kausar, alias Sanober, a TV and film artist, was offloaded from flight GF-771 to London for carrying Khuram Shafique, real name Irfan Ahmed, as her son, on fake documents.

After the immigration authorities checked their documents, it was revealed that the boy was travelling for the first time at the age of 20 years on a fresh passport, and a UK visa obtained on the basis of his mother’s previous visits to England as an artist.

On further investigations, the boy confessed that he had paid over Rs0.5 million to Saleem, a Lahore-based producer, who arranged the passport and introduced him to Ms Tasneem for taking him to the UK, the authorities said.

In another incident, Mazharullah Khan, real name Atif Ali, was offloaded from a UK-bound flight (EK-665) on “photochanged” British passport, the FIA authorities said.

Similarly, Tariq Mehmood Noor, real name Mohammad Asif, was offloaded from Kuwait Airways flight (KU-206) to London, for carrying a photochanged UK passport, the authorities said.

THREE INJURED: At least three persons were injured in a clash between a group of students and a bus driver in sector I-9 on Tuesday, police said.

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