PESHAWAR: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced to help Pakistan Customs to modernise Torkham station to curb smuggling.
Assistant Collector (Exports) Saiqa Abbas has said that the ADB will further upgrade facilities at Torkham Custom station. She said that all the facilities, including a large sized scanner, for checking the containers and warehouses would be introduced with the help of the upcoming project of ADB.
The assistant collector said that Torkham’s custom station had been assigned the target of collecting Rs4805.60 million in the financial year 2016-17, whereas already Rs6888.670 million had been collected this fiscal year.
Saiqa further said that five to six million rupees were collected at the station on a daily basis. “The launch of WeBoc, CCTV cameras, baggage scanners and separate passages for the incoming and outgoing passengers were there for the facilitation of people, she added.
