QUETTA: Collectorate of Customs in collaboration with FC seized huge quantity of smuggled diesel from two Hino tankers.
Sources told that information was passed through Collector Irfan Javed to Additional Collector Yasir Kalwar regarding movement of smuggled fuel. Deputy Collector Akber Jan formed a team led by Superintendent Tariq Sultan comprising Inspectors Ahmed Nawaz Zehri, Yusuf Notezai and Shaukat Ali, and coordinated with FC Kalat.
In a joint operation with FC, Customs recovered 100,000 liters of Iranian diesel worth millions of rupees along with two Hino tankers. The commodity was to be transported to inner country.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered a countrywide crackdown against smuggling of goods which, according to him, is not only causing billions of rupees loss to the national exchequer.
Sources said that Collectoate of Customs Quetta had surpassed all previous year records in just six months of the current year, and the performance so far has been the best in last 11 years.
