QUETTA: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Collector Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad appreciated Assistant Collector Akmal Durani for showing outstanding performance against smugglers who tried to smuggle Indian origin betel nuts in passenger buses.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Iftikhar Ahmad received information that under cover of passenger buses huge quantity of foreign origin betel nuts will be smuggled through Kolpur Customs check post.
The customs staff enhanced vigilance on Kolpur check post and continued checking of every bus while during checking the staff intercepted a bus and recovered huge quantity of betel nuts while no one claimed the ownership of these contraband goods. The total value of seized betel nuts is Rs11 million.
Assistant collector told “we raided these passenger buses due to their use in illegal smuggling of foreign goods and we would further enhance our teams efficiency to curb such kind of illegal activities’. He added that such kind of activities would not be tolerated at any cost.
He said that Collector and Additional Collector Preventive appreciated this effort of Ghulam Hussain Khoso Inspector Kolpur, Inspector Asghar Khan and Zahir Shah.
