In a bid to take strict action against migration of people belonging to various minority groups to other countries, the ministry of interior has tasked the FIA and other agencies to launch a crackdown in all the four provinces against those involved in human trafficking, Pakistan Today has learnt.
In this regard, Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik recently chaired a high-level meeting of the law enforcement agencies and the FIA that took up the matter of massive migration of minority people to the European countries on political and religious grounds, well-placed sources told this scribe.
In the meeting, the FIA and other investigation agencies were instructed to furnish a detailed report containing names of those involved in human trafficking and the list of those who have been migrated to the European countries, the sources added.
The sources said the meeting also discussed the report submitted by the ministry of foreign office that pointed out the sudden increase in visa issuance to the European countries to the people of minority community.
As per the report of foreign ministry, a large number of Hindus and other minorities have been migrated from Pakistan to India and other European countries. They are subjected to inhuman treatment and they seek political asylum on the pretext of their insecurity in Pakistan which is bringing bad name to the country’s law enforcement agencies, the report added. Quoting the foreign ministry’s report, the sources said that these people were doing negative propaganda against the country that resulted in Pakistan as “failed state”. Besides, the foreign investors did not agree to invest in Pakistan, a country vastly blessed with the natural resources including coal, gas, etc, they added.
With clear instruction of the interior minister, the investigation agencies were compiling data of those migrated to different countries.
Another high-level meeting would be held after which the people involved in human trafficking would be taken to task and their illegal networks would also be busted, the sources further added. An official who was part of the meeting told Pakistan Today that the FIA had started compiling data of the travel agents with details of the people sent abroad, adding the travel agencies involved in human trafficking would be taken to task. “Another meeting of the FIA officials has been scheduled within 15 days wherein final decision of rounding up the agents would be made”, he added.
