MULTAN: Customs Intelligence and Investigation (I&I) Multan office is facing shortage of young staff as no recruitment has been carried out in the department since 1993.
Customs I&I Additional Director Nisar Ahmad said this, while talking to Customs Today. He said that his department needed more staff for the operational activities to curb smuggling in the region and to perform administrative work.
“Inclusion of fresh blood in Customs Intelligence and Investigation will increase the strength of the department during anti-smuggling crackdown in the widespread area,” he believed.
The Additional Director said that some members of existing staff are too old to chase the smugglers. He revealed that the Multan office has just39-member staff that has to cover the whole southern Punjab.
Nisar Ahmad said that to curtail smuggling in the region from Balochistan and Sindh, the Multan Customs office needed more staff. He informed this scribe that his two staff members, Investigating Officer Arshad Baig and Sepoy Haji Bashir, are also retiring soon.
However, all efforts have been done to curb smuggling in the region and recruitment will increase the performance as well as capability of department, he added.
