‘Human traffickers’ held

Published March 12, 2026 Updated March 12, 2026 06:24am

LAHORE: The FIA claims to have arrested two suspected human smugglers on Wednesday.

As per officials, the FIA’s Anti-Human Smuggling Circle arrested Chaudhry Farman and Malik Ayaz during a raid in the city. They say that Farman was running an illegal travel agency – Ittehad Travel Consultant.

During the raid, eight passports, several work visa contracts, and other documents were recovered from the suspect.

The FIA says that Ayaz allegedly deprived a citizen of Rs1.3 million on the pretext of arranging a Belgian work visa for him.

Published in Dawn, March 12th, 2026

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