LAHORE: Pakistani wives of two Chinese citizens have approached the Lahore High Court against the alleged harassment at the hands of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

Saima Tabbasum contends in her petition that she married a Chinese citizen, Liyang Cheng, on Jan 25, 2019, as per Islamic laws while the other petitioner, Shabana Ashiq, contracted marriage with Zushu Feng under Christian marriage laws on Jan 18 last.

Both petitioners submitted that the FIA offloaded them from a China-bound plane on May 7 along with their husbands and later the agency officials forcibly sent their spouses to China while detaining them for interrogation.

They said the interrogators con-hscated their passports and other travel documents and that they were being summoned by the FIA time and again for interrogation.

The petitioners asked the court to restrain the FIA from causing them harassment and order the agency to return their travel documents.

DISMISSED: A judicial magistrate on Thursday dismissed the bail petitions of 11 Chinese citizens and two locals involved in scam of fake marriages with Pakistani women and forcing them into prostitution af ter taking them to China.

Advocate Saleem Khan represented the suspects and denied the prosecution charges saying his clients had been implicated in a fabricated case. He claimed that wives of Chinese petitioners never lodged any complaint to the FIA.

He urged the court to release thepetitioners on bail.

On the other side, the investigating officer presented record of the case and statements of the complainants against the Chinese citizens and their local accomplices. He said the suspects did not deserve bail.

After hearing both sides, Judicial Magistrate Amir Raza Bittu dismissed the bail petitions.

The suspects include Hongfa Yang, Libing Liu, Bo Wang, Chuanjia Liu, Gongze He, Tianyyi Liu, Feng Xnu Yang, Chan yen, Song Guoqian, Liu and Wei Linping.

The FIA accused them of contracting fake marriages with Pakistani women with the help of local facilitators and forcing them into the prostitution after they started living in China.

The agency also accused them of using Pakistani brides for illegal trade of human organs.