PAKISTAN: IMMIGRATION CHECK STEP UP AT KARACHI AIRPORT AFTER COPIES OF LONDON BOMBERS' PASSPORT REVEAL THE ATTACKERS TRAVELLED TO PAKISTAN

Record ID: 579956

  • Title: PAKISTAN: IMMIGRATION CHECK STEP UP AT KARACHI AIRPORT AFTER COPIES OF LONDON BOMBERS' PASSPORT REVEAL THE ATTACKERS TRAVELLED TO PAKISTAN
  • Date: 19th July 2005
  • Summary: (BN09)KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JULY 19, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF QUAID-E-AZAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT KARACHI 0.05 2. CU FLIGHT SCHEDULE 0.09 3. SLV PASSENGERS AT HALL 0.15 (BN09)KARACHI, PAKISTAN (RECENT) (REUTERS) 4. SV/CU OF IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS CHECKING TRAVELLING DOCUMENTS (3 SHOTS) 0.40 5. SV PASSENGERS ST
  • Embargoed: 3rd August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVADELITOVYM7PW7YA7P9KWTR1EE
  • Story Text: Immigration check step up at Karachi airport after
    copies of London bombers' passports reveal the attackers
    travelled to the country last year.




    Immigration officials on Tuesday (July 19) imposed
    rigorous checks on passports and travel documents at
    Pakistan's Karachi airport, a day after copies of some of
    the London bombers' passports revealed travels to the
    country.

    Three of the suicide bombers involved in the July 7
    London attacks entered Pakistan through Karachi last year,
    immigration officials told Reuters on Monday (July 18).

    They were young British Muslims Shehzad Tanweer, 22,
    Mohammad Sidique Khan, 31 and Hasib Hussain, 18.

    An immigration official said Shehzad and Sidique
    visited Karachi in November last year, and went back to
    London in February.

    A Pakistani newspaper, the Daily News, reported that
    the two had stayed at a hotel in Karachi's central Saddar
    area for a week before leaving for Lahore by train.

    Computer records show a Hasib Hussain entered Karachi
    from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on July 15, 2004. No data was
    available regarding his departure.

    Copies of the three men's British passports bore
    photographs bearing strong likenesses to those already
    widely published.

    Pakistani security agencies have detained several
    suspected militants since the London bombings, but have so
    far failed to establish links between them and the attacks
    in Britain.


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