Ghor records 45 human trafficking cases this year

Monitoring Desk

FIROZKOH: Human trafficking cases have increased in western Ghor province where 45 such cases were recorded this year, the provincial justice department chief said on Tuesday.

Abdul Jabbar Raji told a seminar “Awareness about human trafficking” in Firozkoh, Ghor’s capital, that negligence on the part of the government in preventing human trafficking was of great concern.

He said all the cases in Ghor were resolved by local residents and local tribal elders and the local administration and police had no role in capturing human traffickers or rescuing the victims.

Provincial information and culture director, Fakhruddin Aryapor, also expressed concern about the increasing human trafficking incidents and said militants were involved in most of such cases.

“Militants traffic children most of the times to train them in internal or foreign countries for terrorist activities”, he said.