In separate incidents, seven people were offloaded from various international flights at the Islamabad International Airport on Friday. According to immigration officials, Abdul Hameed and Bakhtiar Khan from Swat were offloaded from the Doha-bound flight QR 398 for carrying stolen and invalid passports respectively. Abdul Hameed was intercepted by immigration officials on his way to the plane and was found to be carrying a stolen passport. Bakhtiar Khan was prevented from boarding the same flight after it was discovered that he had pasted his photograph over someone else's passport.
In another incident, a passenger Usman Ali was offloaded from a Canada-bound flight because of an expired visa. Similarly, a couple was prevented from boarding Paris-bound flight PK 733 as their travel documents were invalid. A woman, Irshad Begum, was offloaded from a Manchester-bound flight as she did not have proper travel documentation. |