FIA immigration officers at Islamabad Airport intercepted and offloaded five passengers attempting to travel to Hong Kong after detecting fabricated child identities. The operation revealed that the group intended to travel on Thailand visit visas en route to Hong Kong.
The passengers named in the investigation are Bushra, Amjad Ali, Alizeh Shahin, Muhammad Adnan and Zeeshan Ali Khan. Initial findings indicate Amjad Ali is the biological son of Bushra, while Alizeh Shahin, Muhammad Adnan and Zeeshan Ali are not her real children and were presented as such through falsified records.
According to the FIA statement, each family paid an agent PKR 15,000,000 to arrange the travel. The agent allegedly altered NADRA records to list the three passengers as children of Ijaz Ali, adding them to his family record and showing an address in Sawabi in the updated entries.
Investigators have traced the three passengers to Sargodha, Attock and Khushab. Evidence gathered so far points to systematic document tampering, with the agent receiving large sums to modify official identity records and facilitate the departures.
Officials from the Pakistan Airports Authority have also been implicated for providing facilitation at the airport, and FIA teams have identified elements connected to those PAA contacts. The five passengers have been transferred to the Anti Human Trafficking Circle in Islamabad for further legal proceedings.
The scope of the inquiry has been widened to include possible involvement of NADRA and passport officials. FIA headquarters in Islamabad says the probe will continue to determine the full extent of record manipulation and institutional collusion.
