report in Daily Times, Oct 7th, 2023The Anti-Human Trafficking and Smuggling wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) once again took a decisive action to prevent a group of alleged beggars from embarking on a trip to Saudi Arabia under the guise of an Umrah pilgrimage at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday. This incident is just one in a series of similar attempts thwarted by the FIA in recent weeks, tarnishing the country’s…
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report in Dawn, September 28th, 2023KARACH: The Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis was informed on Wednesday that a growing number of beggars from Pakistan were moving abroad, which has spurred ‘human trafficking’. Secretary Zulfikar Haider of Ministry for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development made this disclosure during a discussion in the Senate panel on the issue of skilled and unskilled labour leaving Pakistan, Dawn.com reported. In a startling revelation, Secretary Haider informed the…