QUETTA: The Anti-Smuggling Organization has intercepted two passenger buses at Lakpass check post and seized huge quantity of foreign origin contraband goods along with buses in worth Rs20 million.
According to details told by Collector Ashraf Ali after receiving information about smuggling attempts he directed to enhance checking on main entry and exit points of the Quettta city. During checking they intercepted two passenger buses which were traveling from Quetta towards Karachi.
The Collector told that the ASO staff stopped the passenger buses bearing registration numbers BSB-490 and BSB-987 and asked them that what is the loaded on the buses, the drivers reply was not satisfactory. He claimed that nothing is loaded on the buses except the passengers.
He said that during search of passenger buses the ASO staff find huge quantity of various type of smuggled goods from cavities of buses, he was added that ASO staff seized the buses along with the smuggled goods and registered the FIRs against the possessors of contraband smuggled goods as well as the buses use for carrying smuggled goods.
Collector told that buses were coming from Quetta and were going to Karachi when they intercepted at Lakpass check post, he further told that seized goods were including foreign origin Pan Prag, different brands of fake foreign origin cigarettes and smuggled tires.
