KOHAT: The Customs authorities have foiled a smuggling bid from Afghanistan and seized two non-customs paid cars, huge quantity of tea and dry batteries worth millions of rupees at the Kohat tunnel checkpost.
Spokesman for local Customs Department, Pir Naeem Shah, told the media that two cars with fake number plates were coming from Kurram Agency after crossing the Afghan border and were destined for Karachi.
The Customs authority has also seized 1,500kg tea and 85 large dry batteries, which were being smuggled to Bannu and Dera Islamil Khan from a Peshawar warehouse.
The officials had taken into custody a truck (E-5500 Peshawar) and Mazda (LHR-1101) along with the drivers in which the illegal consignments were being smuggled. Cases of smuggling have been registered against the carriers of the non-custom paid cars and drivers of other two vehicles.
