GUJRANWALA, Jan 29: Two children are among the 60 people who have just been deported from Greece and Turkey and brought to Gujranwala.

Led by information that 60 deportees were being brought to the Islamabad airport, FIA Additional Director Husain Asghar led a team to arrest the deportees. Among the deportees were two boys, in their early teens, who the FIA kept separately from the group to investigate how they fell a victim to the human smuggling mafia.

FIA inspector Rai Naseerullah quizzed Abdullah, 13, son of Muhammad Ali (of Pareywali village) and Mazhar Iqbal, 15, son of Mian Ashraf (of Chaddu village in Mandi Bahauddin). They told the official that human agents took them to Karachi by train and later shifted them to Quetta from where their sub-agents helped them cross over to Iran where they stayed for 10 days.

Later, they crossed the Turkey border and entered Greece whose border security officials arrested and detained them along with other Pakistanis. The FIA called the parents of the boys for interrogation who confirmed that they had paid Rs300,000 each to human agents to ensure bright future of their sons abroad.

Having not plenty of resources, the families said they greased the palms of the human agents by selling gold jewellery and other household valuables. The agency censured them and warned them against taking illegal step in future, handing over the children to them.