Tag: Trafficking
3500 artifacts digitalised to preserve cultural heritage
Officials say initiative to prevent illicit trafficking of archaeological objects
ISLAMABAD: Department of Archeology and Museums has completed digitalisation of around 3500 artifacts through its...
FIA, UNODC to roll out campaign against trafficking
ISLAMABAD: The country office of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in collaboration with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), is rolling out nationwide...
SC directs FIA to bust groups involved in women trafficking
ISLAMABAD: A three member bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has directed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to bust the groups...
US, Peru agree to fight against drugs trafficking with joint effort
LIMA: Peru’s foreign minister said on Monday that she and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had agreed to keep working together to fight...
Self-confessed Delhi ‘godman’ may have enslaved women and girls
MUMBAI: A self-proclaimed ‘godman’ may have trafficked and enslaved dozens of women including minors at several retreats in Delhi and across the country, according...
Malaysia finds graves of suspected trafficking victims
Indonesia claims most migrants stranded at sea are illegal Bangladeshi labourers, however begins search for migrant boats
Malaysian authorities said Sunday that they have discovered...
‘United we can curb drug trafficking’
President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday emphasised the need for more concerted and coordinated efforts by all the relevant agencies to curb the drug trafficking...
Sex trafficking case baffles police
An alleged sex trafficker was arrested from Iqbal Park on Thursday amidst a dramatic turn of events that left Lorry Adda police baffled as...
Joint efforts only solution to drug trafficking: Zardari
President Asif Ali Zardari has called upon the regional countries to chalk out a joint strategy to deal with narcotics.
Addressing the regional ministerial conference...
Russian official sees declining trend for drug trafficking after US pullout
Head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov blames the US for a major part of the narcotics smuggled from Afghanistan to his...
Grade 17 officer held for trafficking hashish
A Grade 17 federal government employee was arrested on Saturday by the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Lahore Police for allegedly smuggling eight kilograms...
New laws, same old organ trafficking
About two months back, 28-year old Asif Ahmed* put up an announcement on the internet to sell one of his kidneys. “I lost a...
China arrests 137 over organ-trafficking
Chinese police arrested 137 people, among them doctors, suspected of trafficking human organs in a nationwide crime ring that profited from the huge demand...
18 ‘non-Baloch’ men murdered in cold blood in Kechh
As many as 18 Pakistani illegal immigrants, majority of who were Punjabis, were gunned down and two others injured in a deadly attack in...
Indonesia arrests alleged people-smuggler: police
Indonesian police have arrested a suspected people-smuggler from Afghanistan accused of arranging a boat trip in which 90 people drowned off Australia's Christmas Island,...
Afghan drug trafficker linked to Taliban jailed in US
A US judge sentenced an Afghan man to life in prison Tuesday for trafficking heroin to more than 20 countries and using the proceeds...
Pakistani smuggler beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug trafficking, making it the second execution in as many days, the Saudi Interior...
