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exposethecriminals ago

It's possible Imran Awan and his family are involved in what is described in the article below, as they seem to be very much in control in Faisalabad.

 

"Protect me from the beasts," pleads sex-trafficked Pakistani woman [trafficked at 15]

 

FAISALABAD, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zunaira Muhammad was 15 years old and....forced her into sex work [in Dubai.]

They are trying to elude the traffickers and corrupt police and government officials, whom her family and lawyer say are in the pay of powerful Pakistani gangs that ferry young girls back and forth to Gulf states selling them for sex.

Her story is not unusual. A significant number of girls and women are trafficked from Pakistan to the Gulf for dancing jobs and sexual exploitation

Pakistan is one of the worst countries in the world for human trafficking, according to the anti-slavery group Walk Free Foundation.

....traffickers operate in Punjab [which includes Faisalabad,] Pakistan’s largest province in the north west, bordering militant tribal areas near Afghanistan where reports are plentiful of trafficking in women and children.

....some FIA [Federal Investigation Agency] agents and police are aiding and abetting criminals.

[Zunaira's relative's] wife said that the police and the relative of a local politician allegedly are protecting the trafficking gang. “During the time my husband was detained, my sisters and I slept in a public park in Faisalabad city due to our fear of being kidnapped,” Qammar Sajjad Ashraf said.

“Police officials have been bribed by the wealthy, individual traffickers as not a single culprit who fired at Zunaira has been been arrested so far,”

[Zulfiqar Bhutta, the family's lawyer] is preparing a motion to transfer the case to Islamabad in an attempt to limit the influence of the traffickers. Meanwhile, Bhutta has been threatened outside the Faisalabad courthouse for his interest in Zunaira’s case and the police have provided him with security.

http://archive.is/1zLPa