Five Pakistanis deported from Sharjah for using counterfeit UK visas

Five Pakistani nationals have been deported from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), after authorities discovered they were travelling on fake United Kingdom visas, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Saturday. The deported passengers, who were trying to travel to the UK via Sharjah, were taken into custody immediately upon their arrival at Lahore Airport, according to an FIA spokesperson. All five individuals had earlier travelled from Lahore to Malaysia this year on visit visas. The development comes a day after Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announced the launch of an artificial intelligence-based application as a pilot project to curb illegal immigration and clamp down on fake travel documents. The FIA spokesperson said that the suspects attempted to travel from Sharjah to the United Kingdom using forged travel documents. The fake visas were allegedly obtained with the help of human smuggling agents, who facilitated the preparation of counterfeit documents.