SIALKOT: The Customs Department has planned an urgent crackdown on all the goods transport and forwarding companies/Addas located in all the six districts of Gujranwala Division including Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din and Hafizabad.
The officials of the Customs Department believed that these goods transporters and forwarders are directly or indirectly involved in the smuggling of auto-parts, computer parts, foreign cloths , tyres of different vehicles, tea, mobile phones, LCDs, LEDs from Afghanistan, India and China as well.
The officials, requesting anonymity, revealed that these goods transporters are also supplying these smuggled goods to the local markets in the said region, causing the government’s treasury a big financial loss.
The officials added that the numbers of these goods transport Addas were in hundreds due to which it was not possible for the Customs Department to check them at once. They said the Customs Department has established several checking teams (anti-smuggling squad) to check these goods transports/forwarding agencies besides launching a crackdown on them in this regard.
They said this swoop has become vital now to curb the menace of the supply of the abovementioned smuggled goods to the local markets by the goods transporters.
