MULTAN: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (I&I) has carried out vigorous actions against smuggled in the jurisdiction and detected massive seizure cases involving Rs419.919 million.
These views were expressed by Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Asif Khan Buzdar while talking with Customs Today during an exclusive interview. He said that Directorate of Customs Intelligence mounted intelligence based information against smuggling of miscellaneous goods and conducted effective enforcement operations in jurisdiction.
He further said that on-going initiatives of Pakistan Customs includes further re-structuring of enforcement formations on the basis of ground demands by establishing a National Targeting Centre, which shall serve as an integrated database of all Law Enforcement Agencies which are working against the menace of smuggling. He informed that after the introduction of these effective initiatives. Directorate of Customs Intelligence is optimistic of ridding national economy of the malaise of currency smuggling, miscellaneous goods and the ancillary ills of TBML, black economy, tax evasion, etc. He further said that Customs Intelligence and National Motorway Police mutual cooperation will assist in restraining movements of smugglers and their ways to curb smuggling.
Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Asif Khan Buzdar shared his point of view that National Highways and Motorway Police are cooperating with each other as smugglers are adopting the main routes for their smuggling through National Highways and Motorway in recent few years. Increased coordination between the two departments is required at the moment to fill the bridge of communication in order to curb smuggling.
He told Customs Today that Customs Intelligence and Investigation needs support of other law enforcement agencies in order to curb smuggling in the region. We cannot eliminate any evil from the society without the local support of their people so Customs Intelligence also needs cooperation of various law enforcement agencies to get better results in their action. They unanimously agreed to increase the cooperation between the National Highways and Motorway Police with Customs Intelligence and wowed to bridge the communication gap besides taking the cooperation to enhanced level.
He further told that we are taking serious measures in order to curb smuggling before this we had to chase the smugglers in which they were sometimes slipped away from the various routes due to our limited resources. Now Motorway Police and other LEA,s will assist us if we required their support in order to capture any smugglers at the route of Motorway. Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Multan have already tighten up the noose against the smugglers with the cooperation of Frontier Core and Border Military Police in order to curb smuggling .Now the cooperation with the LEA,s will also increase the capacity of customs due to enhanced cooperation in the region
