Three human traffickers were arrested and passports, CNICs and other documents were recovered from their possession on Sunday.
Over public complaints regarding sending people abroad illegally, operation was conducted in the federal capital during which three human traffickers identified as Babar, Safdar and Iqbal Hussain involved in sending people out of the country on fake United Nations letter were apprehended.
Scores of Pakistani men and women migrate voluntarily to the Persian Gulf States, Iran, Turkey, South Africa, Uganda, Greece, and other European countries for low-skilled employment such as domestic work, driving or construction work. Once abroad, some become victims of labour trafficking.
False job offers and high fees charged by illegal labour agents or sub-agents of licensed Pakistani overseas employment promoters increase Pakistani labourers’ vulnerabilities and some labourers abroad find themselves in involuntary servitude or debt bondage.
Employers abroad use practices including restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse. Moreover, traffickers use violence, psychological coercion and isolation, often seizing travel and identification documents, to force women and girls into prostitution in the Middle East and Europe.
