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Four arrested for trying to travel abroad on fake documents

By Our crime correspondent
August 01, 2024
A representational image of a handcuffed man. — Pexels/File
A representational image of a handcuffed man. — Pexels/File

Islamabad: Three passengers and an agent have been arrested for attempting to travel abroad with fake travel documents, FIA said.

The arrested individuals include Tauseef, Shahroz Ali, Jafar Hussain, and agent Azhar Hussain. The suspects hail from Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, and Bahawalpur

The passengers were traveling to Saudi Arabia on Umrah visas via flight number PK-753. The FIA Immigrations staff questioned the passengers on suspicion and confirmed their forgery when the staff recovered fake documents during the search with fake Brazilian passports, Spanish resident cards belonging to different people, Pakistani passports, and Spanish passports were recovered from the passengers' luggage.