Four passengers offloaded at Lahore airport over fake Turkish work visas

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Immigration offloaded four passengers at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport for attempting to travel to Turkey on forged work visas.

According to an FIA spokesperson, the passengers — Naqi Nazar from Sahiwal, Zainul Abideen from Lahore, Muhammad Ilyas Khawar from Muzaffargarh and Muhammad Sulaiman from Faisalabad — were scheduled to travel to Turkey on flight 9P-502.

During immigration checks, the work visas of all four passengers were found to be fake, while protector stickers were also affixed to their passports.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the passengers had collectively paid Rs5.7 million to different travel agents to obtain the forged visas.

The FIA Immigration Lahore offloaded all four passengers and handed them over to the Anti-Human Trafficking Circle Lahore for further investigation and legal proceedings.

The FIA said it would continue its operations against agents involved in providing forged work visas and human trafficking.