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…
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report in The Daily Star, Aug 14, 2023Thirty-four Rohingyas, mostly children, were rescued when they were being gathered in Cox’s Bazar Central Bus Terminal area for trafficking, police said. Two suspected human traffickers were also detained from the spot. Among the rescued people, 16 are children, aged between one to five, 10 women and eight men, Officer-in-Charge of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Police Station Rafiqul Islam told The Daily Star. They all are residents of…
report in The Sunday Observer, Aug 6, 2023The Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) has been placed on high alert against Sri Lankans leaving the country with doctored foreign visas and passports, recruited by human traffickers in return for large fees, a top official said yesterday. From the beginning of last week, at least seven people including one woman were taken in for questioning by Immigration Border Service Agents deployed under cover at the BIA, Immigration Controller…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, June 17, 2023The US Department of State on Thursday published its annual report on the situation of human trafficking around the world, in which Afghanistan is among the worst countries in human trafficking. According to the newly published report, millions of people are exploited every year by human trafficking groups. In the 2023 report of the US Department of State, Afghanistan and ten other countries are among the…