Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has placed the names of another seven most wanted human smugglers/traffickers on its Red Book 2019. The ninth edition of Red Book 2019, which was recently published, contains the profiles of 100 most wanted human smugglers and traffickers. As per Red Book, out of total 100, 33 belong to Punjab, 31 are from Islamabad, 12 are from Sindh and two belong to Balochistan. Red Book also contains the names of 12 most wanted human traffickers who have left the country.

It said that in 2005, the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) comprising more than 15 agencies was also established to check the porous western border of Pakistan. The Interpol and concerned foreign mission in Pakistan have also been taken on board for arrest and deportation /repatriation of most wanted human smugglers and traffickers wanted by the FIA in the foreign countries.

The FIA Immigration Wing has so for issued nine editions of Red Book of most wanted human traffickers, proclaimed offenders and court absconders involved in the illegal immigration, human trafficking and human smuggling since 2006.

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