ISLAMABAD: A team of Customs Preventive has foiled a bid by a British Pakistani to smuggle 11 partridges at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad.
Assistant Collector Sadia Usman told Customs Today that the customs staff checked the suspicious baggage of the passenger and recovered the birds. He was going to Birmingham. The customs staff seized the partridges and registered an FIR against the suspect under wildlife laws.
The assistant collector said the passenger, who was trying to smuggle the said partridges was boarding from the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) PK-791, adding that after the seizer of partridges the Customs staff handed over the partridges to the wildlife officers.
She said that at the same evening the Wildlife staffers and Customs staff freed the 11 partridges (5 partridges were black and 6 were brown) at wildlife park Islamabad. The value of the partridges was Rs 1,000 each, adding that according to wildlife laws no one is allowed to take precious species like partridges abroad. This practice is considered smuggling.
