The Interior Ministry has set up a Migration Management Cell to prepare database on human trafficking and for creating linkages between different concerned ministries, an official statement said on Sunday.
The Ministry of Interior is holding a conference in this connection in Islamabad on September 12 wherein all the stakeholders will be invited to participate.
The conference is aimed at developing linkages between the Ministries of Interior Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis, Foreign Affairs, Information and Broadcasting and various departments of provincial governments.
The participants of provincial governments and other relating departments including the Home, Labour, Prosecution, Police, social welfare, transport and Information department as well as the agencies of the Ministry of Interior ie FIA, Nadra, Passport and Immigration and Civil Armed Forces, would also attend the conference.
These linkages are necessary to enable sharing of information and date on relating to human trafficking, smuggling and migration related matters, Deputy Secretary Interior and head of the Cell Amna Imran Khan said. She said that the database would serve as a resource centre on these issues and would facilitate to generate awareness among the masses on the negative implications of travel abroad through illegal means.
It would also provide credible information to counter damaging unsubstantiated and exaggerated figures relating to these issues quoted by international organisations for down grading Pakistan's status in the international arena, she said.