PESHAWAR, June 5: Pakistani missions in the Middle East have been accused of issuing green passports to Afghan nationals on fake national identity cards.
The Federal Investigation Agency immigration cell at the Peshawar airport last week registered FIRs against 10 Afghan nationals on charges of illegally travelling on Pakistani passports. The FIA immigration cell also asked the passport cell of the department to initiate inquiry against those authorities who had issued passports to the Afghan nationals on fake national identity cards.
The FIA immigration cell arrested seven Afghan nationals coming from Dubai on May 29 and three others coming from Abu Dhabi on May 30 at the Peshawar international airport.
Sources in FIA revealed to Dawn here on Wednesday that among the 10 arrested Afghans, seven had got Pakistani passports from Pakistan missions in the Middle East countries. They confessed during interrogation that they got the passports on fake Pakistani national identity cards, sources maintained.
A senior official in the FIA said that the cases would be sent to the passport offices in Islamabad after investigation.
The seven Afghans who travelled from Dubai with illegal passports are: Mohammad Amin, passport No.KB-850188, issued on April 23, 2003, from Parachinar in Kurram Agency; Atiqullah, passport No.KB-850188, issued on April 23, 2003, from Dubai, and former passport No.B-685056 issued on Dec 18, 1995, and passport No.C-712857, issued on Oct 27, 1987; Nafia Khel, passport No.K-881872, issued on Nov 28, 2001, from Abu Dhabi; Mohammad Javed, passport No.G-674853, issued on July 27, 1999, from Abbottabad; Imran Khan, passport No.K-937388, issued on Dec 6, 2001, from Peshawar; Abdul Qadeer Khan, passport No.K-578108, issued on August 24, 2001, issued from Jeddah and former passport No.C-152979 issued on June 16, 1996, and passport No.H-084944, issued on Nov 25, 1991; and Mohammad Musharraf Khan, passport No.K-578033, issued on Aug 23, 2001, from Jeddah and former passport No.A-848803, issued on April 12, 1995.
The three Afghans who travelled from Abu Dhabi are: Mohammad Javed, passport No.KA-281654, issued on April 24, 2002, from Riyadh; Sherawar Din, passport No.G-510246, issued on June 3, 1999, from Jeddah and former passport No.AC-13609, issued on Aug 1, 1994; and Abdullah, passport No.G-301619, issued on March 11, 1999.