LONDON UK

KARACHI, June 21: The notorious human trafficker Rasheed Ahmed who was
traveling along with a pregnant lady and an underage child, was arrested on
Wednesday at Karachi airport due to a joint operation between the Ansar
Burney Trust and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). He was taking the
pregnant lady and another child to sell in the ME.

Rasheed Ahmed son of Yousuf was traveling to Muscat to go to Dubai, where he
planned to sell the unborn child, the young child and the lady. He was
arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency Immigration department after
receiving information by the Anti human trafficking and human rights
organization Ansar Burney Trust.

Members of the Ansar Burney Trust had been watching Rasheed for some time
and once his departure with his victims was confirmed, they contacted the DG
FIA Tariq Pervaiz and launched an operation for his arrest at Karachi
airport.

While talking to newsmen, the Chairman of the Trust and Anti human
trafficking and Anti Slavery campaigner Ansar Burney said that Rasheed Ahmed
was traveling to Oman to go to Dubai, where he was earlier arrested in 2004
and deported along with a former child camel jockey Nadeem. But he continued
to traffick children to Oman and from there to the UAE through an open
border at Berhemi.

"After the ban on the use of underage children as camel jockeys in some
countries, he started trafficking young girls to the Middle East for sex
exploitation". Burney said.

"However we continued to watch him and look for an opportunity where we
could catch him in the act and have him arrested" Burney added.

Ansar Burney said that on this occasion, Rasheed was traveling on the fake
name of Mohammed Naeem son of Abdul Kareem along with a former child camel
jockey Nadeem and a pregnant lady Firdous. However, due to information
provided by the Ansar Burney Trust to the FIA, he was arrested at the
Quaid-e-Azam International Airport on the directives of Director General
FIA, Tariq Parvez.

"I would like to congratulate DG FIA, Tariq Parvez, Deputy Director Shahid
Hayat and Sultan Khawaja and Assistant Director Airport Khaleeq uz Zaman in
this regard and also like to request the Federal government to recognize
their services in this regard". Burney added.