Karachi: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Immigration arrested five passengers who were going to Saudi Arabia to beg under the guise of Umrah.

According to the spokesperson of FIA, eight passengers were arrested from Karachi in two different operations on charges of embezzlement and traveling on fake documents.

FIA officials stated that in the first operation, five passengers traveling to Saudi Arabia under the guise of Umrah were arrested.

According to the spokesman, the accused were going to Saudi Arabia to beg and now have been transferred to Anti-Human Trafficking Circle Karachi for further legal action.

According to FIA officials, in another operation, three passengers traveling with fake documents to Azerbaijan on study visas were arrested. The accused have been transferred to Anti-Human Trafficking Circle Karachi for further legal action.

Lahore: An alleged robber was killed in a crossfire with the Organised Crime Unit Civil Lines in Gujjarpura area of the provincial capital, police said on Monday.

Police said the suspect identified as Malik Imran Sabir was being transported to a location in Gujjarpura to make further arrests where his accomplices opened fire on police. Police claimed that the suspect was killed by the firing of his accomplices.

The suspected succumbed to his wounds while on the way to a hospital. The body was shifted for autopsy and legal formalities. The police said Malik Imran had killed four people in Kahna, Ghaziabad, Mughalpura and Harbanspura.

A case was registered against the runaway suspects.

Quetta: At least 20 labourers were abducted by armed men in Musakhail on Sunday amid the growing terrorism wave in Balochistan.

According to police, the gunmen opened fire on the camp of the labourers working for a gas company, set ablaze eight bulldozers and took away over 20 labourers with them.

The incident comes hours after seven labourers were brutally killed by unidentified gunmen in a house in Panjgur district of the Balochistan.

Police detailed that the labourers were residing in a house in the district’s Khuda-e-Abadan area, where the incident occurred and left seven people dead and one wounded.

Both the Musakhel and Panjgur incidents reflect the security challenges faced by the province which has witnessed the brunt of terrorist attacks, along with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, amid the increase in terrorist incidents faced by the country in recent months.

This is pertinent to mention here that last month, 23 passengers were killed after being offloaded from buses and trucks in the Rarasham area of Muskhel district.

Islamabad: Six suspects were arrested for selling drugs to students in educational institutions.

According to the spokesperson of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), an effective crackdown is ongoing against elements selling drugs to students in educational institutions across the country and six suspects have been arrested from around educational institutions in five different operations in 24 hours.

About 15kg of drugs worth more than Rs1.2 million have been recovered during various operations.

150 grams of hashish and 10 ecstasy tablets were recovered from the accused near Farash Town Islamabad. Similarly, 200 grams of hashish and 100 grams of ice were recovered from the accused near the university on Defense Road in Lahore.

2.4kg of hashish, 100 grams of ice and 50 ecstasy pills were recovered from the accused near the college on Canal Road Lahore.

96 bottles of liquor and 2kg of hashish were recovered from two suspects in Latifabad, Hyderabad. Similarly, 10kg of hashish was recovered from the accused in a raid near the university in Tondojam, Hyderabad.

The arrested accused have also confessed to selling drugs to students of educational institutions.