SIALKOT: The special vigilance teams of the Excise and Taxation Departments have sealed as many as 209 commercial buildings due to the non-payment of their prolonged pending property taxes.
According to the senior E&T officials, these 209 sealed commercial buildings were located at Gujranwala city’s congested Suigas Road, Sialkot Road, Jagna, Kutcha Fatto Mand, People’s Colony, Pasrur Road, Race Course Road Ratta Road, Popular Nursery, Chhichharwali localities and these sealed buildings were the defaulters of Rs.2.6 million of property taxes and their owners were still reluctant to clear these outstanding arrears despite the repeated warning notices issued by the E&T department, in this regard.
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Meanwhile, the special teams of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have arrested as many as four notorious accused human traffickers Aslam, Riasat, Basharat and Qamar Zaman from Mandi Bahaud Din and Gujranwala.
According to the Khalid Anees( Divisional Deputy Director FIA), the accused were sending the innocent people abroad illegally after getting big amounts from them by showing them the golden dreams of their lucid future in abroad. FIA has sent the accused behind the bars after registering separate cases against them. Further investigations were underway , in this regard.
Meanwhile, a local judicial magisterial court has sent as many as 26 accused youths,to local jail on judicial remand. These youth were recently deported from Turkey by Turkish government to Pakistan. FIA had arrested them upon their arrival at Sialkot international airport as well.
