Govt Puts Over 50,000 Citizens on No Fly List

The Government of Pakistan has placed over 50,000 individuals involved in criminal activities, including human traffickers, on the no-fly list, the Provisional National Identification (PNI) List. Sources told ProPakistani that the Majority of these individuals include those who were deported from different countries,s including Europe as they tried for unauthorized entry into European countries. Sources said the Federal Immigration Agency (FIA) has shared details of these thousands of people with the Immigration and Passport Office; subsequently, the Ministry of Interior approved placing these people on the PNI list. Sources said that the government of Pakistan has taken this harsh decision after the frequent immigrant boat incidents and these people cannot travel abroad till the exclusion of their names from the PNI watch list.