Three Afghan women trying to fly on forged documents arrested at Karachi airport

• Zahra arrives in Pakistan as a patient's attendant.
• Mehria comes to Pakistan on a business visa.
• Aziza claims she was treated at Islamabad hospital.

KARACHI: Immigration authorities have arrested three Afghan women attempting to go to Germany on forged documents via Karachi.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration officials said the arrested women had been identified as Aziza Mohammadi, Mehria Rehmani and Zahra Sultani.

"Medical and business documents of all the three women were counterfeit," they said, adding that a case was registered against the women and they were handed over to the anti-human trafficking circle for further legal action.

As per the officials, Aziza came to Pakistan on a medical visa. The documents furnished by her apparently showed she had been admitted to a hospital for treatment in Islamabad between April 27 and May 20, 2024. While, upon investigation, it was revealed that she never visited Pakistan since obtaining her passport, the immigration authorities said.

Similarly, documents with Mehria, who arrived in the country on a business visa, insisted that she was on a business trip to Pakistan with her spouse Iqbal Hakimi. When inquired about her husband, the woman claimed she was unmarried and knew no one named Iqbal Hakimi, the FIA officials added.

They said, as per documents provided by Zahra, she arrived in Pakistan on September 2 with a female patient, Marman Parveen, as an attendant.

Investigation revealed that she deceptively took a Pakistani visa pretending to be the patient’s attendant.

It should be noted that the immigration authorities at the Karachi airport recently arrested at least nine other such foreigners going abroad on forged documents.