KARACHI: The Pakistan Customs decided to carryout physical examinations of the consignments issued with the serious alerts by M/s TPL Trakker against the Transit Trade cargo, it is learnt.
The decision to this effect made in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Director-General Transit Trade Muhammad Javed Ghani.
The meeting was also attended by Director Transit Trade Peshawar Dr Naeem Khan, Director Transit Trade Quetta Pervez Esbahani, Director Transit Trade Karachi Wajid Ali, Deputy Director Transit Trade Karachi Dr M Mumtaz Ali Raza Ch, Deputy Director Transit Trade Quetta Amanullah Tareen and Deputy Director Transit Trade Karachi Shoaib Raza.
The sources told Customs Today that now the physical examination of consignments at Exit Directorates i.e. Quetta and Peshawar would be carried out with an aim to check out and verify description and quantity mentioned in the Goods Declaration.
These steps are said to taken under the directives of Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Tariq Bajwa against all kinds of smuggling and mis-declaration of goods by the traders, sources added.
“Now, all such consignments in which serious alerts e.g. door alerts are issued by M/s TPL Trakker shall be physically examined before cross border to verify the description/quantity in the GDs”, the sources disclosed.
Moreover, the Directorates of Transit Trade Peshawar and Quetta directors have been instructed to depute senior officials at the exit directorates to perform the job, they concluded.
