<p>Lahore: Thirty-five officers of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have been dismissed from service for their involvement in human trafficking, an official statement said on Wednesday.</p>.<p>According to the statement, criminal cases have been registered against 13 FIA officials.</p>.<p>"On the directive of Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, FIA Director General Ahmed Ishaq Jahangir conducted departmental hearings of 49 officials implicated in boat incidents and human smuggling," it said.</p>.India asks Pakistan to expedite release of Indian prisoners in its custody.<p>Four inspectors, 10 sub-inspectors, two ASIs, five head constables, and 14 constables involved in the boat incidents have been dismissed from service, it added.</p>.<p>The DG said there is no place in the organisation for officials guilty of negligence and carelessness in boat incident cases.</p>.<p>"The purpose of departmental accountability is to rid the organisation of corrupt elements," he said.</p>.<p>Three boats carrying migrants capsized in mid-December near the island of Gavdos, which is further south of Crete, and another boat capsized near the Peloponnese peninsula.</p>.<p>More than 80 Pakistanis drowned after boats carrying them capsized. Some 36 Pakistanis were rescued. The rest remain missing, which, as per a report from Pakistan's Embassy, should be presumed dead.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the bodies of four more Pakistanis who died in the boat tragedy have been recovered, taking the total number of recovered corpses to nine.</p>.<p>The boats, which departed from Libya's Tobruk port, also carried Bangladeshi, Egyptian and Sudanese nationals.</p>.<p>Since the boats' tragedy, the authorities launched a countrywide crackdown on human traffickers, arresting over 30 so far. </p>
<p>Lahore: Thirty-five officers of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have been dismissed from service for their involvement in human trafficking, an official statement said on Wednesday.</p>.<p>According to the statement, criminal cases have been registered against 13 FIA officials.</p>.<p>"On the directive of Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, FIA Director General Ahmed Ishaq Jahangir conducted departmental hearings of 49 officials implicated in boat incidents and human smuggling," it said.</p>.India asks Pakistan to expedite release of Indian prisoners in its custody.<p>Four inspectors, 10 sub-inspectors, two ASIs, five head constables, and 14 constables involved in the boat incidents have been dismissed from service, it added.</p>.<p>The DG said there is no place in the organisation for officials guilty of negligence and carelessness in boat incident cases.</p>.<p>"The purpose of departmental accountability is to rid the organisation of corrupt elements," he said.</p>.<p>Three boats carrying migrants capsized in mid-December near the island of Gavdos, which is further south of Crete, and another boat capsized near the Peloponnese peninsula.</p>.<p>More than 80 Pakistanis drowned after boats carrying them capsized. Some 36 Pakistanis were rescued. The rest remain missing, which, as per a report from Pakistan's Embassy, should be presumed dead.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the bodies of four more Pakistanis who died in the boat tragedy have been recovered, taking the total number of recovered corpses to nine.</p>.<p>The boats, which departed from Libya's Tobruk port, also carried Bangladeshi, Egyptian and Sudanese nationals.</p>.<p>Since the boats' tragedy, the authorities launched a countrywide crackdown on human traffickers, arresting over 30 so far. </p>