KARACHI: As many as six principal appraisers and 22 appraising officers/ examining officers of Transit Trade Department of Pakistan Customs have been transferred with immediate effect.
The chief collector of Customs Appraisement-South has also notified the transfers of almost all the appraising staff posted at Directorate General of Transit Trade.
Sources close to Transit Trade department claimed that the transfers have been made due to the illegal removal of goods of US Army, NATO/ISAF cargo.
They further claimed that these transfers were notified following the recommendations by Director Transit Trade, Wajid Ali.
According to details, Principal Appraisers Azeem Khan and Qalandar Bux Ansari have been moved from transit trade to Model Customs Collectorate Appraisement-West, while Principal Appraiser Liaquat Ali has been transferred from transit trade to MCC Port Qasim.
Principal Appraiser Shahid Hussain Rizvi has been shifted from MCC Port Qasim to transit trade, while PAs Jam Arbab and Abdul Shakoor Shaikh have been moved from MCC Appraisement-West to Transit Trade.
Similarly, appraising officers including Shakeel Ahmed, Mirza Irfan Beg, Muhammad Akram Basra, Sajjad Asghar Bukhari and Akhtar Ali Jamali have been transferred from transit trade to MCC Port Qasim.
Appraising Officers Abdul Aziz, Aftab Iqbal, Aurung Ali Shah, Ghulam Mustafa Kathia, Moosa Solangi and Adnan Amin Malik have been moved from transit trade to MCC Appraisement-West, while, Appraising Officers Shahid Murad, Ihtisham-ul-Haq Paracha, Maira Gulrez, Mubashir Mir and Munir Brohi have been posted at transit trade from MCC Port Qasim.
Appraising Officers Ali Akber, Azhar Shafi, S.M Wasi, Sarfaraz Bangalzai and Abdul Rahim from MCC Appraisement West and Shafqat Abbas Gondal from MCC Appraisement East have been posted at Directorate General of Transit Trade.
