LAHORE: Pakistan customs officials left for India to attend 19th Customs Border Liaison Committee (CBLC).
According to details, Central region Chief Collector of Customs Rozi Khan Burki, Collector of Customs Lahore Preventive Mukarram Jah Ansari, Additional Collector of Customs Wagha Sadi Munib, Assistant Collector Appraisement will attend the CBLC meeting in India.
The delegation will be led by the chief collector of customs. The CBLC meeting is being held between the two countries after every two month one after other in Pakistan and India to streamline major trade related issues on both sides of the Wahaga border.
Earlier, CLBC had met during May 2015 in Lahore Customs House in order to discuss cross border Customs related issues to make bilateral trade between the two countries more subtle and cost effective.
Both side discussed various issues on procedural levels with regard import and export through railways between the two counties and passengers’ arrival and departures. The 18th CLBC has discussed improvement facilitations and simplification in customs procedures for the importers and exporters in order to make the bilateral trade between the two countries more subtle by bringing down the transactional costs of importers and exporters.
The meeting is held routinely to discuss bilateral trade issues and resolution of the concerns thereupon.
Pakistan Customs official appreciated measures undertaken by Indian Customs department in curtailing Gutka export to Pakistan while the Indian Customs authorities told Pakistan Customs authorities that their vegetables were put under undue examination that was posing heavy losses to their exporters of vegetables. Another issue related to a recent accident took place wherein an Indian laborer was crushed under the truck of a Pakistani driver who was transporting cement there.
The driver was arrested by the Indian police. The CLBC Indian members vowed to take up the issue by providing the drive possible assistance.
Others including Wagha Additional Collector Sadia Munib, Deputy Commissioner Toqeer Ahmad Dar, Abbas Ali Babar, Indian Principal Commissioner Sunil Kumar Sahani, Indian Customs Assistant commissioner Aman Jeet Singh, Assistant Commissioner Tran Veer Gill will also present on the occasion.
