ISLAMABAD: June 20, 2023: Interior minister , Rana Sanaullah, on Tuesday said investigations into Greece boat tragedy will be completed within a week and those involved in heinous crime of human smuggling will be given exemplary punishment.
Rana Sanaullah said the government will make necessary laws to plug off those loopholes which provide room to the human traffickers in Pakistan. Interior minister, Rana Sanaullah added that the government was going to make short term and long term legislation to avoid such horrifying case of human trafficking .
Hundreds of Pakistani were aboard on fishing trawler that capsized in Greece a few days ago. The sinking of the fishing trawler in coastal area of Greece has resulted in missing of hundreds of Pakistanis . Since a week has passed after the tragedy there is very megre change of survival of any missing persons of the ill-gated fishing trawler.
The fishing trawler had left from Lybia for Europe and stuck up in Greece waters following malfunctioning of its engine. According to some media reports, fishing boat had become static in Greece waters for around 7 days, but neither coastal agency of Greece nor the ships which were sailing in Greece waters at the time of he tragedy turn to save trapped people of the ill-gated fishing ship.
Since unfolding of Greece boat tragedy, Pakistan’s key institutions like the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and some other related agencies are carrying out operation against those who were involved in trafficking of innocent Pakistanis.
So far , FIA has arrested over one dozen human traffickers from different cities of Pakistan . Since dozens of missing persons of Greece boat hail from different villages of Azad Kashmir, a witch hunt operation is also under progress to arrest the human traffickers from Azad Jammu Kashmir also .
According To the officials data, FIA has nabbed around 20 human traffickers in connection with Greece boat tragedy. The government is actively following operation to arrest human traffickers to reach out to the bottom of Greece boat tragedy and it brings a hope that no one in the future will dare to carry out human smuggling from Pakistan and expose lives of innocent Pakistani to a tragedy like one that occurred a few days ago in the waters of Greece .