LAHORE: The Collectorate of Customs Preventive team deputed at Allama Iqbal International Airport foiled an attempt to suggle precious hawks to Dubai on Wednesday.
Official sources told Customs Today, that Collector Customs Preventive Faiz Ahmad received credible information about some smuggling attempts through airport. He immediately directed concerned teams to enhance checking in arrival and departure lounges of Allama Iqbal International Airport.
During checking process the customs authorities intercepted a passenger who was leaving for Dubai and checked his luggage and found hawks worth millions of rupees. The authorities took the Hawks into custody and arrested the passenger who belonged to Iraq. The Customs Preventive team asked him to produce any legal documents regarding possession of hawks but he remained failed to provide any relevant legal documents.
Customs Preventive team seized the hawks and registered a case of smuggling against the Iraqi national started further investigations.
It is necessary to mention here that Customs Preventive Collector Faiz Ahmad directed all anti smuggling squads to adopt zero tolerance policy towards smuggling. He directed to use all available resources to curb smuggling in the region. Sources told that Customs Preventive Collectorate already adopted a comprehensive strategy to curb smuggling and due to this there is marginable decrease is being witnessed in the smuggling attempts.
