Karachi: Human trafficking of young girls has been revealed in Karachi, the port city of Pakistan, who are being sent to a Middle Eastern country for prostitution and for filming porn movies.
“An organized network of girls trafficking is running racket of sending girls from poor families of the city in the name of providing ‘respectable’ job to them,” disclosed a local daily.
When these girls return to Karachi they are further blackmailed to remain a toy in hands of these human traffickers.
“The network, also include women members to catch girls, has so far sent dozens of young girls to different states of United Arab Emirates,” the daily quoted official sources as saying.
Sources further disclosed that the network is active in various parts of Karachi including Gulshen Iqbal, Abul Hasan Asfahani Road and Gulistan e Jauhar.
“Besides forcing innocent girls to fulfill illicit demands of ‘the customers’, this network also forge information to prepare fake immigration documents for the girls,” they added.
“This is because if any girl is deported from UAE then law enforcers could not be able to find the accurate data of the trapped girl.”
The presence of this network was disclosed 15 days ago when a 19-year old Shahzia managed to save her life and reached Karachi after four years. Afterwards, girl went to an Non Governmental Agency for protection and told her suffering.
The office-bearers of the NGO then informed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). On application of the girl, the officials of FIA Anti-Human Trafficking circle eventually arrested a member of the network and an FIR was lodged on Monday 10 April. The accused is now on a 17-day remand as per orders of a local court.
“Efforts were being put up to arrest the remaining members of the group on basis of information provided by the arrested culprit,” the sources noted.
“Accused Abdul Qayyum is a resident of Abul Hasan Asfahani, Karachi.”
After court hearing, Shahzia, present with NGO office-bearers, told that she was a resident of Abul Hasan Asfahani.
“I belonged to a poor family and most of the time my father was unable to earn livelihood for the family owing to his illness.”
“I was fond of studies but couldn’t complete my study due to financial woes of the family.”
Shazia went on to say, “A woman Fatima, lived in my neighborhood, used to visit our home. She persuaded my mother by telling her stories of many girls working in UAE and sending large amount of money to their homes.”
“In UAE, Veil is compulsory for women and girls are usually work as maid or factory worker in a protective environment,” Fatima usually started her brief with this sentence.
After being trapped by bright and prosperous future, Shazia’s family decided to send her to Dubai where she was forcibly sold to many Arabs and Pakistanis.
Official sources in FIA said that they had traced solid evidences against this human trafficking network in addition to information provided by the culprit Abdul Qayyum. However, further investigation is underway.
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