ISLAMABAD: Customs Adjudication Collector Seema Raza Bukhari has ordered officials concerned to get a report regarding tampered land cruiser being used by Afghan Embassy in Islamabad.
She has also ordered to send the vehicle to Afghanistan and get it verified in 30 days. Afghan Consulate General Third Secretary Abdul Nafay Raghbat had written application to the customs to issue duty-free NOC for the sale of the vehicle. After scrutiny of the vehicle’s record it was found that an application for NOC was also submitted in April 2014. When a forensic test was conducted it was found that chassis was tampered. Before chemical treatment the chassis number was HDJ101-0002805 and after treatment HDJ101-0007382. At that time ONO 240/2010 was issued in which the FBR written a letter for unconditional release of the vehicle. The FBR also said the Afghan Embassy was not entitled to sell the vehicle in Pakistan. However, the embassy violated the FBR instructions and used the vehicle for a long time.
