PESHAWAR, Aug 15: The immigration authorities of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have deported a Nigerian and a Ugandan nationals who had landed here on Tuesday on forged visas, said a senior official.

Nigerian national Youssaf Olanrewaju Kareem carrying passport No A-1660158 and Ugandan national Kabub Clare Omany with passport No B-0525684 arrived here from Dubai on an Emirates Airline’s flight on forged Pakistani visas, said Assistant Director of immigration Inamullah Khan Gandapur.

A duty inspector checked the passports and deported them after finding forgery in the travel documents, the official said.

A local passenger who intended to board a PIA flight to Kuwait was arrested when he presented his bogus passport to the immigration staff at Peshawar airport on Sunday night, Mr Gandapur said.

He claimed that the immigration staff was alert after getting information about the passenger’s attempt to board the PIA flight No PK-205 to Kuwait.

Omar Ali, son of Shehzad Gul, a resident of Matta village of Swat district, presented his passport to the immigration counter and the duty official detained him.

During the preliminary interrogation, Omar Ali confessed to having tried to travel on the photo-changed passport issued to his relative Sultan Ahmad.

The accused was sent to the FIA passport circle, where a case had been registered against him.

ARREST: The city police have arrested 28 hardened criminals from different localities of the provincial metropolis, said a press release issued on Tuesday. However, the release did not mention the exact date of the arrest of the 28 proclaimed offenders wanted by the police in murder, attempt to murder and other heinous crimes.