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Afghan family caught using fake visas to enter Malaysia
A detailed examination of their passports revealed that the visas were counterfeit.
Malaysian authorities caught four Afghan nationals attempting to enter the country using fake visas, the Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) announced on Monday.
The group, believed to be a family consisting of one man and three adult women, was detected during a routine monitoring and document screening operation at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). The operation involved checks on 132 foreign nationals.
According to an official statement from AKPS, the individuals arrived in Malaysia on July 24 at 9:20 p.m. on Emirates Airlines flight EK342, but failed to report to immigration authorities as required.
“They were observed wandering within the terminal area for several days, which raised suspicions among members of the KLIA Terminal 1 Monitoring Unit,” the statement said. Upon further inspection, officers discovered that the family had remained in the terminal for four days without undergoing the proper immigration clearance process.
A detailed examination of their passports revealed that the visas were counterfeit.
During questioning, the individuals admitted that they had never traveled through Uzbekistan, despite claims that it was listed as a transit point in their documents. They confessed to acquiring the fake visas through an agent, paying $6,000 for the fraudulent paperwork.
As a result, AKPS issued Not-To-Land (NTL) orders for all four individuals, and they are scheduled to be deported to Afghanistan on July 30 via Emirates Airlines.
The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) has announced that Mahdi Ansary, a reporter for the Afghan News Agency (AFKA), has been released after serving one and a half years in Bagram prison.
In a statement welcoming his release, AFJC emphasized that the fundamental rights of this journalist—who had been tried and imprisoned on charges of cooperating with exiled and foreign media—were “seriously” violated.
Ansari was arrested on October 5, 2023, after returning from his workplace in Kabul.
He was sentenced on January 1, 2024 by the Kabul Primary Court to one and a half years in prison on charges of “propaganda against the Islamic Emirate.”
Farid Dehqan, spokesperson for the Khas Kunar police command, said that rocket attacks by the Pakistani military regime are still ongoing in the province.
These attacks come despite earlier announcements by the Pakistani military of a temporary ceasefire for Eid.
Afghanistan’s Chief of Armed Forces, Fasihuddin Fitrat, said in his Eid message that Pakistan’s military regime has violated the ceasefire along the Durand line.
According to the Eid message released by the Ministry of Defense, several civilians were killed in attacks carried out by Pakistani forces in border areas.
Fitrat added that the continuation of Pakistan’s attacks despite the ceasefire “demonstrates a lack of commitment and deception” on the part of the country.
He stressed that the Islamic Emirate has refrained from retaliatory action in order to prevent further deterioration of the situation and has remained committed to the ceasefire.
However, he warned that if such attacks are repeated, “the ceasefire will become meaningless,” and the Islamic Emirate will deliver a “decisive response” to Pakistan’s actions.
It is worth noting that the Islamic Emirate and Pakistan reached a temporary ceasefire on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr through mediation by Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
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