Father, son arrested over human smuggling charges

FAISALABAD – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a young man and his father on the charges of human smuggling and recovered dozens of passports from them.

An FIA spokesman said on Saturday that on a tip-off, a team conducted a raid near Airport Chowk Jhang Road and nabbed Asad Hayat and his father Shaukat Ali, along with 25 passports.

Both the accused were wanted to the FIA in human smuggling cases, as they along with their third accomplice Mian Irfan had extorted money worth millions of rupees from people on the pretext of sending them abroad, he added.

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