Tag: Trafficking

6,835 involved in illegal human trafficking nabbed in four years

Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has nabbed 6,835 persons involved in illegal human trafficking in the country during the last four years. Giving year-wise details...

Zardari urges regional leaders to join hands against drug trafficking

President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday urged regional leaders to join hands to counter drug-trafficking, calling it a major source of funding for militants...

Couple held for kidnapping, trafficking

The police rounded up a kidnappers' gang comprising a couple and recovered abducted child from their possession here late Tuesday night. According to details, Bara...

Iran willing to enhance Pakistan trade by up to $10 billion

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday said his country was ready to enhance trade with Pakistan by up to $10 billion within a couple...

Man involved in human trafficking remanded to FIA

The district courts on Tuesday granted 14-day judicial remand of an accused involved in human trafficking to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Senior Civil...

Pakistan, India to share info on drugs trafficking

Pakistan and India have signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation to check narcotics smuggling in which both sides have agreed to share...

Austria uncovers new human trafficking ring

Austrian police stopped over 50 illegals from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Iraq, bringing to five the number of smuggling rings uncovered in just over...

The struggle against human trafficking

Population all over the world has been fluid with people migrating from region to region or country to country. Migration for a variety of...

Families of 10 deceased youth demand end to human trafficking

The aggrieved families of the 10 deceased youth, who recently died while illegally travelling to Europe through Iran, from Daska, Pasrur (Chawinda), Gujrat, Wazirabad...

Italian police swoop on human trafficking ring

Italian police have arrested dozens of suspects in raids to break up a gang smuggling migrants from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan in life-threatening conditions,...

Children Parliamentarians for laws against trafficking

Children Parliamentarians demanded strict laws against child trafficking and special trainings for their self defence in this regard, in a session of Children Parliament...

Four acquitted from drug trafficking charges

Four people, including two Customs officers, were acquitted by a special court for control of narcotic substances in a drugs trafficking case on Saturday After...

Nine arrested for trafficking children to Iran

KHAIRPUR: Police have claimed to arrest nine members of Inter-Provincial group involved in disabled children's trafficking to Iran for begging the other day. Khairpur District Police Officer (DPO) Khadim Hussain Rind said in a press conference that the police had arrested nine people who used to smuggle handicapped children to Iran where they were positioned at the shrines and every child used to collect Rs fifty thousand per month. He said that Sarang Jaffery, Laiq Jaffery, Wahab

Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan begin talks on drug trafficking tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan will consider deepening their cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking in Islamabad on November 24 and 25.
The ministers and senior officials of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan will discuss deepening their cooperation in their fight against drug trafficking in a series of meetings under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani, the

Arrest everyone involved in human trafficking, Malik tells FIA

KARACHI: Taking serious note of the deportation of 106 Pakistanis, 54 from Punjab and 52 from Balochistan, at the Taftan Check Post, Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general on Sunday to ensure that every last man involved in human trafficking is put behind bars.
He issued this order while presiding over a high-level meeting held at the National Crisis Management Cell in Karachi to review the grave issue of human trafficking,

Bangladesh and Pakistan to fight terrorism, drug trafficking together

ISLAMABAD: The governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh on Monday decided to initiate cooperation in counterterrorism, counter narcotics and drug trafficking.
The fifth round of Pakistan-Bangladesh bilateral consultations was held here with Pakistani side led by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Bangladesh delegation by its Foreign Secretary M Mijarul Quayes.
During the three hour-long discussion, including the lunch hosted by the foreign secretary in honour of the foreign