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Britain
Man flies to Pakistan using sister's passport
2008-12-30
The British authorities are investigating how a United Kingdom (UK) citizen flew to Pakistan using his sister's passport before he was discovered by Pakistani officials and sent back.
How'd you bag him, Mahmoud?
It was easy. Their mustaches weren't even close.

According to a report in The Times, 26-year-old Kasim Raja from Moseley, Birmingham, travelled to Pakistan unknowingly on his younger sister's passport. Following the incident, security at Britain's Birmingham airport was criticised as 'a total failure'.

Raja passed three security checks unchallenged before boarding a flight to Islamabad. It was only on arrival that passport control staff noticed the error and he was sent back to the UK. The paper said Swissport, which handles check-in procedures for the airline at Birmingham, has promised to investigate.
Posted by:Fred

#6  UK and Pakistan passports look alike?
Posted by: Darrell   2008-12-30 14:30  

#5  In fact I was wrong. After more careful reading it looks like the guy picked his sister's passport by mistake and the police officers at airport didn't even check he looked like in the photo.

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Posted by: JFM   2008-12-30 12:27  

#4  Uh, yeah, JFM is probably right. The guy was probably using his sister's burqa as well as her passport. You'd think the Brits would learn but I guess not.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2008-12-30 12:04  

#3  How this happened? Very simple. British policemen had instructions not to ask veiled women to lift their burkhas. Pakistani policemen hadn't and had no qualms on it.
Posted by: JFM   2008-12-30 08:38  

#2  We really need a picture of the sister.... Or maybe we don't.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2008-12-30 06:21  

#1  If they checked him closely, it would be profiling, and we can't have that.
Posted by: gromky   2008-12-30 05:20  

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