PESHAWAR: FIA detains passenger

Published November 19, 2006

PESHAWAR, Nov 18: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday detained a person at the Peshawar airport for attempting to leave the country on his brother's passport. Abdul Wahid, resident of Kabal, Swat, with passport No. KF-442605 approached the immigration clearance terminal of the FIA, where the immigration officer detected that the picture on the passport was not of the passenger.

The passenger, who later confessed that the passport belonged to his elder brother and his name was Nasib Rawah, was off-loaded from flight SV-979.

He was shifted to FIA police station for investigation.—PPI

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