TOBA TEK SINGH: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Faisalabad arrested a currency exchange dealer from Farooqabad on Sunday for his involvement in the fake currency business.

A spokesperson for the agency said a private courier company found that Kashif Nadeem had tried to send a number of packets of counterfeit currency notes through a parcel to his accomplices in different cities of the country. At this, the courier company officials informed the FIA and a team raided and arrested the suspect along with fake currency notes worth Rs 200,000, which he was going to send to Quetta, Karachi and Sialkot.

Meanwhile, the FIA arrested a human smuggler involved in sending people to Spain through illegal means by the sea from Mauritania.

The officials said Mubashir Inayat had received Rs4.7m from a citizen. When Inayat asked the man to board a boat in the sea from Mauritania, he refused to do that and saved his life by returning to Pakistan.

Another held for human smuggling to Spain

BOOKED: Millat Town Police Station of Faisalabad registered a case against the so-called priest named Muzamil Masih under Section 365 B of the PPC for kidnapping a girl of a poor Christian family.

A meeting was held by the Minority Rights Movement (MRM) against taking away the daughter of a poor family and arranging a fake marriage with her although the suspect was already a father of five children.

The speakers claimed that according to the Christian faith, polygamy was not allowed. The suspect had spent three days searching for the girl along with her family, assuring them that she was like his daughter.

Later, he locked his house and escaped and sent the bogus marriage certificate to her parents.

The speakers in the meeting demanded arrest of the suspect and recovery of the girl and warned that if an attempt would be made to make concessions on any basis during the investigation, they would launch protests.

Those who addressed the meeting included Pastor Emerick Joseph, Lala Roben Daniel, former MPA Habakkook Gul, Advocate Atif Jamil Pagan, Abrar Yunus Sahotra, Pastor Waqar, Pastor Imran Sadiq, Pastor Asher, Yeshua Bhatti, Pastor Sulaiman Yunus, Maalik Sohail, Patras Maseeh, Elder Shehbaz, Yusuf Adna and Manzoor Anthoney.

Published in Dawn, February 3rd, 2025