Lahore: After lapse of nine months, the FIA has started an inquiry against the PIA officials allegedly involved in illegal movement of Indian passengers at the Lahore airport, said sources in the Ministry Interior on Monday.
It is worth mentioning here that seeking report from the FIA on the same subject last year, the Interior Ministry had termed the illegal movement of Indian transit passengers a security risk for the country as well as for the airline, but no inquiry had been initiated.
Now an inquiry has been initiated on an intelligence report which revealed that the PIA staff transported 134 Indian passengers illegally from the transit lounge to a hotel to earn money in sheer violation of immigration rules.
The passengers who arrived at Allama Iqbal International Airport (AIIAP), Lahore, were supposed to stay in the transit lounge to travel to their next destinations. The FIA Immigration officers took their passports and asked them to wait in the transit lounge, but some PIA staffers, reportedly directed by office bearers of Air League, transported them to the hotel only to earn money. An FIA officer said there was a list of 10 negative countries whose passengers could not be allowed to go out of the airport and India was on the top of that list.
10/08/15 Amraiz Khan/The Nation
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It is worth mentioning here that seeking report from the FIA on the same subject last year, the Interior Ministry had termed the illegal movement of Indian transit passengers a security risk for the country as well as for the airline, but no inquiry had been initiated.
Now an inquiry has been initiated on an intelligence report which revealed that the PIA staff transported 134 Indian passengers illegally from the transit lounge to a hotel to earn money in sheer violation of immigration rules.
The passengers who arrived at Allama Iqbal International Airport (AIIAP), Lahore, were supposed to stay in the transit lounge to travel to their next destinations. The FIA Immigration officers took their passports and asked them to wait in the transit lounge, but some PIA staffers, reportedly directed by office bearers of Air League, transported them to the hotel only to earn money. An FIA officer said there was a list of 10 negative countries whose passengers could not be allowed to go out of the airport and India was on the top of that list.
10/08/15 Amraiz Khan/The Nation
