LAHORE, Oct 24: The first “red book” of the country containing the record of most wanted human smugglers and terrorists will be completed by the end of this year, it is learnt.
Official sources told Dawn on Monday that the Federal Investigation Agency’s special investigation group (SIG) had been assigned the task. The SIG has primarily been established to fight terrorism.
They said the SIG would launch an operation against them after maintaining the record. The agency’s anti-trafficking unit, the passport cell and the immigration wing would assist it in nabbing top human smugglers.
The sources said at present all provinces had maintained a record of the most wanted terrorists which was yet to be centralized.
They said the agency was gathering information about the top human smugglers from the deported persons especially from Oman, Iran, Turkey, Italy and the US. It is learnt that the governments of Oman, Turkey and Iran have asked Pakistan to take strict measures to control human smuggling.
According to some reports, about 30,000 Pakistanis have been deported from Oman on different charges since 2001. Besides, over 1,000 Pakistanis are languishing in different prisons of Muscat awaiting trials for an illegal entry into the country.
Several Pakistanis belonging to poor families have reportedly lost their lives while attempting to reach Oman to earn better livelihood. Similarly, scores of Pakistanis continue to cross the Iran border every week in a bid to reach Turkey, Greece or Italy.
The sources said most of the human smugglers in Punjab were operating in Gujrat, Wazirabad, Sialkot, Mandi Bahauddin, Gujranwala, Malikwal, Faisalabad and adjacent areas.
They said the interior ministry was contemplating to award a handsome amount to the people who would provide information leading to the arrest of the most wanted human smugglers on the pattern of head money on terrorists.
To maintain the record of the most wanted terrorists, the SIG would collaborate with the central investigation department and other law enforcement agencies.
A senior officer told this reporter that the SIG had been strengthened in this regard. A technical wing was being established with a staff of 50 besides recruiting more staff in the intelligence wing and transport facilities.
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What Alex said and why we should listen
SNIP:AMERICA’S BORDERS: America is being diluted by people who are lazy and dumbing her down. They aren’t coming to you with anything to add, only everything to take. You have absolutely no control over who enters and who doesn’t, so you can’t tell if someone will be an asset or a liability to you. You say illegal immigration is against the law, but you keep giving amnesty to these criminals and do nothing to secure your borders. Recent events have made it undeniably clear that there are people out there who will stop at nothing to destroy you, yet you seem to apologize for defending yourself. You spend billions each year on printing government documents in both Spanish and English, in spite of having voted yourself an English speaking nation. No one else does that; why do you? Since when does the minority of the people call all of the shots? What happened to majority rule? There are already schools in southwest America that teach all subjects in Spanish. The number one need within any nation is the ability to communicate. You are shooting yourself in the foot. You need to close your borders, seal them off, capture all illegals, put them in prison, and then use them as labor for all of those so-called jobs that no one else will do. This would not only slow the invasion, but be a boon to your economy. The government should be doing what the Minutemen are doing, but if you the people are the “real Government” as you say, then you need to take it over. The recent Minutemen success has proven that you can do this, and do it well. Your government has failed you, and your constitution provides for you to take it back in such an instance. If now isn’t such an instance, then there never will be one. Other lands might wail and gnash their teeth, but you'll be safer and healthier. Stop apologizing for thinking of yourself.
YOUR MEDIA: I don’t understand this area of America at all. They seem intent on anything and everything that belittles and destroys the foundations of your country. They never support your wars or your soldiers—at least not since Vietnam—and deliberately only cover stories that will turn the world against you and get your men killed. I come from a land in the Middle East where there is absolutely no freedom of the press, and I love America’s fearlessness in supporting a free press. But the balance isn’t there. They are so horribly skewed in favor of communism and even in favor of your Islamic enemy that they don’t even try to hide it. They are the ones who gave words such as “racist” and “sexist” too much power, and they throw them around like kids pitching balls. And you Americans seem to feel so guilty for said “racism” that you let them! It isn’t racist to call people who would kill you your enemy, nor is it racist to want to keep criminals out of your home. We often watch your news from (the nation where Alex now lives) and look at one another in amazement at the way your press seems to take pleasure in obliterating you. Why won’t you do something about this? They’re not the only ones with freedoms.
EDUCATION: Go to any major university and look at their roster of professors and graduate students in any of the sciences, engineering or math fields. You won’t find an American name in any of them, or at least very very few. They are all Chinese, Muslim or Indian…why? Because you aren’t just outsourcing your jobs, you are outsourcing your brains. You have all the makings of a major “brain drain” going on in your country. You have 300 million people in your land…why aren’t you raising your own scientists? You pay lip service to hating discrimination, yet so –called “positive discrimination” happens in your universities non-stop. Foreigners aren’t just given preference over Americans but are actually paid to learn! You think you can stop it? Your universities will never allow it, and here’s why. 1. A large number of their professors are foreign…the brain drain would devastate them. Research would collapse, and the Silicon Valley—which is a major contributor to most universities—would disintegrate since most of its workers are, you guessed it, Indian, Chinese and Muslim. 2. If they lower the number of foreign students, they risk becoming a pariah by signaling they don’t want foreigners there. This can either label them racist—apparently a death sentence in America—or go back to the problem mentioned in #1. It is a vicious cycle that no university wants to risk. 3. After 9/11, the FBI background checks hindered the foreign student’s ability to come to America. Your universities began to lose out in graduate school applicants to the more open and friendly European nations, and their outcry was deafening. They demanded dropping the background checks because it was hurting them. Screw America…it was all about them. So in 2002 Powell personally promised one of the Middle Eastern countries that he would expedite the process, and he quickly freed up hundreds of visas to this enemy of America. Your own general did this. He isn’t the only one; your own government courts students from enemy nations who willingly send them over to both learn and act as spies. All the while these enemy nations are making billions of dollars from their people working on their behalf in other nations. And all because America’s children want to go into liberal arts, drama, and interpretive dance. 4. As an example, India is quickly becoming prosperous, encouraging many Indians who had planned to live in America to return home. I know India is not your enemy, but the largest Islamic population is in India. You’d be wise to keep that in mind, especially with Microsoft setting up one of its largest institutions there. And it’s not only India. When the scientific leaders from any foreign nation leave, they take their knowledge and skills with them, hence the brain drain leaving America and the brain flood entering your enemies.