Additional collector says Peshawar Customs confiscates smuggled items worth Rs 298m in last 45 days
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Customs can collect handsome revenue in shape of customs duty on imported goods by shifting customs stations of Kurram agency along with Afghanistan border to Web Based One Customs (WeBOC).
This was stated by Model Customs Collectorate Additional Collector Syed Fazal e Samad while talking to Customs Today, adding that the Peshawar Customs was also planning to shift customs stations i.e. Kharlachi, Burkhi and Teri Mangal to WeBOC in near future.
Recently, the additional collected has inaugurated the WeBOC, an automated system, to facilitate the trade at Shahdeendan e Dhand Custom Station near Kurram Agency.
Additional Collector Samad told Customs Today that with special instructions of Collector Qurban Ali Khan “We shifted custom station from manual to WeBOC. The customs station is controlled by Tal Custom Station because there is adverse, inhospitable, and even unfriendly operational environment but Pakistan Customs stands guard at the front lines of Pakistan’s economic and physical borders.”
He explained that the Shahdeendan e Dhand Customs Station was a seasonal station, adding that pluses and scrape were only exported to Afghanistan from Pakistan.
Informing about the anti-smuggling performance, he told that Peshawar Customs seized smuggled items worth Rs 298.16 million during last 45 days. The customs confiscated cloth worth Rs 61.14 million, tea valued at Rs 19.5 million, auto parts worth Rs 2.52 million, tyres Rs 1.83 million, electronics worth Rs 2.68 million, vehicles under Section 157 of the Customs Act, 1969 worth Rs 29.9 million, vehicles under section 16 worth Rs 41.15 million, narcotics worth Rs 134.1 million and miscellaneous goods worth Rs 5.27 million.
