Tag: customs
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Pakistan Customs intensifies inspection at all international airports
Pakistan Customs has intensified goods inspection at all international airports to prohibit the smuggling of recently banned commodities. The federal government prohibited the items in SRO No. 598(I)/2022, issued May 19, 2022, by revising the Import Policy Order, 2022. This 24-hour monitoring at international terminals to prevent smuggling has already resulted in multiple confiscation of…
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Are passengers’ personal imported items being confiscated when they come back to Pakistan?
Instagram blogger @karachista1, on Tuesday, uploaded a story sharing several screenshots of conversations and images showing passengers’ items being confiscated at the Karachi and Lahore airport. Several social media users including lawyer Abdul Moiz Jaffery and actor and comedian Shafaat Ali, complained on Twitter about this being a ‘draconian step’. The complaints ranged from AC…
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Customs seizes smuggled liquor worth Rs6.48 million in Karachi
During a raid on the outskirts of Karachi on Thursday, Pakistan Customs personnel recovered a massive quantity of imported liquor worth millions of rupees. According to a Customs spokesman, monitoring was increased at the Moachko checkpoint after the Customs Enforcement Collectorate got information that alcohol was being smuggled to Karachi from Quetta under the cover…
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Here’s what you need to know about wheat smuggling investigation
According to the report, the committee formed to investigate on exports of wheat and wheat flour during the ban period failed to produce results. According to the statistics of Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) shows 3,947 and 26,206 metric tonnes (Unit of weight equal to 1,000 kilograms) were exported…