LAHORE: Collector Customs, Qurban Ali Khan formally inaugurated the new State Warehouse to create huge space for the storing of smuggled goods, special barracks for class-IV employees of the department.
Sources told Customs Today that for this purpose, a function was also organized in which Additional Collectors, Syed Fazle Samad, Rashid Habib and Deputy Collector Anti-Smuggling Organization, Mohammad Zakir, Deputy Collector Dry Port, Athar Naveed, Deputy Collector, Khiyal Mohammad, Assistant Collector, Saiqa and Assistant Collector, Syed Sadaf Ali Shah were also present.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Collector Customs, Qurban Ali Khan appreciated the efforts of the team of customs officials for the completion of the project. He said that different districts including Nowshera, Mardan, Abbottabad, Bannu and D.I. Khan were already having godowns, but with the passage of time the seizure of the smuggled goods had also registered increase and the available warehouses were facing shortage of space for their storage.
For this purpose, he said there was a dire need for the construction of a big warehouse, saying the new godown will not only guarantee further facilities for the staff of Model Customs Collector, Peshawar while there will also be transparency in the confiscation of the seized goods.
