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Rights defenders on paper, traffickers in reality

by Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, May 24, 2023A syndicate has been smuggling people from Bangladesh to nations such as Italy, France, and America under the pretense that they are employees of a non-governmental organisation. As employees of the non-governmental organisation known as the “Protection for Legal and Human Rights Foundation,” they used to request authorisation from the UN headquarters to attend conferences. The syndicate member would apply for a visa at the…

Guna and Ladiya among 9 Lankans arrested from TN over smuggling to revive LTTE

report in Daily Mirror, Dec 20, 2022The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested nine Sri Lankans from the special camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees at Tamil Nadu’s (TN) Tiruchirappalli over their alleged involvement in drugs and arms smuggling to revive the LTTE. The agency said that two of the arrested men were in regular touch with a Pakistan-based drug runner, Haji Salim, who often travelled between Dubai, Pakistan and Iran. These men and Salim…

Pak-Afghan border management: By Waqar Ahmed in The News, Nov 19, 2016

Pakistan is committed to tackling the problem of terrorism mainly emanating from Afghanistan. Hence, an effective border management becomes imperative to control all the infiltration, drug smuggling, etc. Moreover, effective border management will also facilitate both the countries to come out of the blame game, as it would offer a strict check on both sides to counter the free movement of terrorists and drug mafia lords, who are important factors in the deteriorating security situation…