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8 'bogus' passengers sent off plane
Immigration staff at Islamabad on Friday offloaded eight passengers from three flights as they had bogus documents. Immigration staff intercepted four passengers, Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Hanif and Farooq Ahmed, as they were boarding the London-bound flight PK-835. Immigration staff checked the travelling documents thoroughly and found them to be fake.
| "Whaddya mean, 'fake'? My Grandaddy gimme that passport!" |
During the preliminary investigation, the accused told the immigration staff that they had paid Rs 500,000 each to a travel agent, Kashif Mahmood, for arranging visas and other travelling documents.
"And you didn't find it unusual that the visa stamp was drawn with crayon?"
"Hey, what do I know about how they do things in England? I'm from Peshawar!"
"We can tell that from the cut of your turban." |
Three people were offloaded from a Johannesburg-bound flight. The accused, Muhammad Sajjad, Qamer Abbas and Sohail Ahmed, were found guilty of carrying bogus travel documents. Muhammad Mujtaba was prevented from boarding a Jeddah-bound flight SE 725 on the charges that he was carrying someone else's papers. The accused confessed that he had purchased the passport from Gul Khan for Rs 40,000.
| "But Gul Khan's a friend of my cousin Mahmoud, so it's okay, right?" |
The accused were shifted to FIA Passport Cell, Rawalpindi for further legal proceedings.
Posted by: Fred 2004-12-11 |
