PIA flight attendant caught smuggling cellphones from Canada
- 28-Oct-2024
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) staffer caught smuggling expensive cellphones from Canada, ARY News reported on Monday, quoting the airline’s administration. As per details, PIA flight steward Faisal Majeed was caught with 16 expensive phones upon arrival at the Islamabad airport from Canada via flight PK-782. Majeed was caught with phones wrapped around his body […]
PM Shehbaz Sharif directs more efforts to control smuggling
- 21-Aug-2024
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday expressing satisfaction over the reduction in the smuggling, instructed the relevant institutions to accelerate their efforts to purge the country of this menace in toto. The prime minister, chairing a meeting to review the measures for the elimination of smuggling, reiterated that the government would never allow the smugglers […]
Watch: Man caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers
- 10-Jul-2024
A man has been caught trying to smuggle over 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country’s customs authority. The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of Hong Kong and into the border city of Shenzhen, China Customs said in […]
ASF foils smuggling bid at Lahore airport
- 10-Jun-2024
LAHORE: Airport Security Forces (ASF) have foiled an attempt to smuggle heroin worth 4 kilograms at Allama Iqbal International Airport, ARY News reported. As per details, the heroin was hidden in milk packets by a foreign passenger, Shin Shin Yang, bound for Colombo. According to ASF, the passenger had cleverly concealed the drugs, but the […]
PM Shehbaz expresses support to civil armed forces to combat smuggling
- 26-May-2024
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday while appreciating the civil armed forces for their anti-smuggling efforts, directed for provision of all possible facilities, latest equipment and technology to them. Chairing an important meeting on performance of the civil armed forces in their anti-smuggling activities, the prime minister said that for the first time […]
Zero tolerance for smuggling, corruption: PM Shehbaz Sharif
- 29-Mar-2024
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for joint efforts to check smuggling, power theft, and revenue evasion to put the country on path of economic stability. “No political and bureaucratic influence will be allowed to interfere in this major surgery which we have to undertake collectively for the good of Pakistan and its 250 […]
PM Kakar directs expediting efforts to control smuggling
- 08-Jan-2024
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister (PM) Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Monday directed the relevant law enforcement agencies including the Frontier Corps, Pakistan Customs and district administration to expedite their efforts to completely curb smuggling, ARY News reported. He observed that with abhorrent practice of smuggling, few influential people were benefited and stressed that with the establishment […]
Customs seizes smuggled cellphones at Karachi airport
- 31-Dec-2023
KARACHI: Pakistan Customs officials deputed at Jinnah International airport Karachi foiled the smuggling of cellular phones worth millions of rupees on Sunday, ARY News reported. According to a spokesman for Customs, officials deployed at the International Departure were busy checking passengers coming from a foreign origin. During the process, the staff screened the luggage of […]
Pakistan authorities foil bid to smuggle ‘US-made arms’ from Afghanistan
- 13-Dec-2023
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan authorities foiled a bid to smuggle ‘US-made weapons’ from Afghanistan by seizing a truck loaded with onions at the Torkham Border. As per details, the US-made weapons, left in Afghanistan after the departure of the forces were attempted to smuggle to Pakistan, concealed in the onion sacks. Upon checking by the Pakistan Customs […]
Two Customs officers involved in ‘smuggling, corruption’ arrested
- 06-Nov-2023
PESHAWAR: Two Customs officers have been arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over their alleged involvement in smuggling and corruption, ARY News reported on Monday. The FIA Anti-Corruption Circle Peshawar conducted a raid and arrested two Customs officers. According to the FIA spokesperson, the arrested officers including Muhammad Ali and Sunil Kumar were involved […]