LAHORE: A wanted human smuggler was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency late Monday night.
According to FIA officials, the human trafficker’s name, Siraj Khan, was included in the Red Book (that has a list of wanted human smugglers).
Siraj belongs to Rawalpindi. He had set up an office where he would promise people of providing them with jobs abroad.
The accused would trap people by taking hundreds of thousands of rupees in the name of employment.
Previously, Siraj has trafficked people, over which cases were registered against him.
A few weeks ago, a network of human traffickers had surfaced when the chief justice of Pakistan took notice of the case of a woman, a resident of Rawalpindi, who was trafficked after being abducted.
The issue was taken up after the case was mentioned in a recently published article of The News titled ‘Women trafficking in twin cities goes unchecked’ and in Daily Jang titled ‘Sub goongay kiyoon hogaye’.
The articles mention the case of a 40-year-old woman, mother of three children and resident of Rawalpindi, who was sold to different people, eventually reaching Afghanistan, after she was abducted.
The abductors demanded Rs300,000 to return her, while the police said they could not do anything to expedite the pace of progress in the case.
The story added a large number of women were sold from Pakistan by an organised gang of 150 members who arrange fake marriages of these women.
