72 people living in Malta irregularly were relocated to other EU countries on Wednesday, according to the Home Affairs Ministry. The migrants left Malta on a Marathon Airlines flight to other European member states, although the ministry did not specify which countries they would fly to. The migrants will be able to continue their international protection applications in the respective member states. This mechanism is aimed at alleviating the migration burden on the EU’s border countries. Home Affairs minister Byron Camilleri insisted in a statement that relocation is the most effective way for other European countries to ease the burdern on border countries.

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But many human rights advocates are frustrated that the world seems to have already moved on and that the resources and media attention being dedicated to the Titan rescue efforts far outweigh those for the sunken migrant ship. “It’s a horrifying and disgusting contrast,” Judith Sunderland, associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division, said in a telephone interview, reflecting on the apparent disparities in resources and media attention on the two crises. “The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others ... it’s a, you know, really dark reflection on humanity,” she said. The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others ... it’s a, you know, really dark reflection on humanity. The front pages the past few days have been dominated by the search for the missing sub, said Josie Naughton, co-founder and CEO of Choose Love, a U.K.-based nongovernmental organization supporting refugees around the world.

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday obtained DNA samples from the families of 126 missing victims of the Greece boat tragedy. According to the FIA, samples were submitted by the relatives of 52 victims in FIA Gujarat Circle and 46 affected families in Gujranwala Circle while blood samples were also obtained from the relatives of 28 people of Kotli Azad Kashmir. Two more human traffickers arrestedIn another development, FIA Anti-Human Trafficking Circle Gujranwala arrested two more human traffickers involved in the Libya boat incident. The arrested human traffickers include Mohsin Javed and Sharafat Ali who belong to Gujranwala. The human traffickers were arrested in connection with the Libya boat wreck that took place earlier this year in which seven Pakistanis lost their lives.

The country is still reeling from the effects of the Messenia boat tragedy, in which some hundred Pakistanis, the number of which remains unknown, were drowned while attempting to cross illegally from Libya to Italy. However, so far, the arrests have only been of those directly responsible for running the human trafficking at the root of the tragedy. In an ideal world, the government would clean up its act and provide at home the kind of opportunities that the tragedy victims were trying to seek illegally. There will be in time another tragedy, and after the same hand-wringing and breast-beating as we are seeing today, life will go on. What about those providing passage, possibly illegal, no doubt dubious, to Libya, and then those providing shipping to Italy?

At least 15 human traffickers — including the prime suspect — have been arrested so far during the ongoing countrywide crackdown linked with the migrant boat tragedy off the coast of Greece, authorities told a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday. A spokesperson of the FIA said that the suspected human traffickers had received Rs2.5 million from a citizen named Umair Yahya for transporting him to Europe. The arrested human traffickers were identified as Mohsin Javed and Sharafat Ali. The FIA has registered a case against the suspected human traffickers and launched investigations into the incident. In order to identify the bodies of the Greece shipwreck victims, the government has formed a 10-member team comprising renowned doctors.

The tragedy comes as migrant crossings from eastern Libya to Europe have surged, said Ylva Johansson, the EU’s migration and home affairs commissioner. As many as 750 people may have been on board the migrant ship that sank in the Mediterranean a week ago, and just over 100 people survived the shipwreck. We’ve seen an increase with 600% along this route from the eastern part of Libya towards EU or mainly towards Italy,” Johansson told a news conference in Stockholm. “This shows that we really need to do much, much more to prevent this kind of tragedies happening in the Mediterranean,” Johansson said. Such vessels usually leave the Turkish coast and sail round southern Greece in the hope of reaching Italy.

The family of a slain martyr of faith in Libya has broken their silence about his faith and passing. His family believes that he was killed as a martyr of his faith in Jesus Christ. “I’m thanking God… I’m not sad at all. I knew my Christianity because my husband died as a martyr… I’m thanking God and may the Lord keep my daughter safe. I’m thanking God because since we got married, he used to tell me about God, miracles, and everything.

LONDON: Three BBC journalists and a Swedish reporter were abducted in Libya and later released following diplomatic pressure from the British organization and the two governments, media reported on Monday. The reporters were kidnapped and interrogated in a torture cell for five days by intelligence agents shortly after their arrival in Libya in March. The BBC journalists — who remain unnamed — together with Kassem Hamade, a Swedish national working for the news outlet Expressen, arrived in Libya to make a documentary about Imam Musa Al-Sadr, who disappeared in 1978. A BBC spokesperson said: “A small team working for the BBC entered Libya in March of this year with full permission to gather material for a story. Libya has always denied any involvement in his disappearance, but authorities believe he was kidnapped and executed.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah to “formulate recommendations related to the necessary legislation to prevent human trafficking”. The incident prompted outrage, a period of national mourning and a government move to crack down on human smugglers. Chairing a meeting in Islamabad regarding human smuggling and the Greece boat tragedy today, the premier directed the interior minister to supervise the investigation process and ordered that those responsible for human trafficking be brought to justice at the earliest. It further said that Shehbaz ordered the investigation committee to submit the report at the earliest while also directing the Gujranwala commissioner to identify the agents involved in human trafficking. The FIA also stated that its Lahore zone had arrested 16 suspects so far and 37 cases had been registered against human smugglers in Lahore, Gujranwala and Gujrat.

WASHINGTON – Hunter Biden isn’t the first relative of a president to find himself the subject of unwanted attention, but his agreement Tuesday to resolve criminal charges placed him among the more serious targets of investigations aimed at relatives of presidents. Biden also agreed to enter a pretrial diversion program for a charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm in 2018. The White House said the president hadn’t spoken to him for 20 years. After leaving the White House, Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners secured a $2 billion investment from the government of Saudi Arabia. Kushner’s company denied links between the New York real estate deal and the White House.

“Today, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, illegal immigrants of Nigerian nationality are being deported. The deportation was supervised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as part of an ongoing joint program with the Libyan government to deport illegal migrants. Libya is a major starting point for migrants who wish to cross the Mediterranean to Europe in search of a better life. "About 165 illegal immigrants were deported today, in coordination with their embassy. There will be another flight next week to deport other Nigerian immigrants.

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CAIRO: Nine Egyptians suspected of being people smugglers connected with the deadly sinking of an overloaded migrant boat off Greece have been charged with human trafficking and remanded, a Greek legal source said on Tuesday. The men denied the charges during a hearing before a magistrate in Kalamata that lasted more than 10 hours on Tuesday, the legal source added. Officials say the migrants aboard the boat which capsized in the Ionian Sea last week had departed from Libya towards Italy. A Greek navy frigate, a patrol boat and four other vessels on Tuesday searched the waters off the Peloponnese peninsula where the migrants disappeared. But the hopes of finding any survivors are scant a week on from the disaster.

“He left his country looking for a better life in Europe because of economic difficulties,” lawyer Athanasios Iliopoulos said. The boat is thought to have set off with passengers from the Libyan coastal city of Tobruk on 10 June. Authorities said the vessel repeatedly refused Greek help, saying it wanted to go to Italy. The group said it alerted Greek authorities and aid agencies hours before the disaster unfolded. Greek authorities also denied reports the vessel was stationary for hours, saying that it had sailed a distance of about 30 nautical miles from its detection to its sinking.