RAWALPINDI: Customs officials at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) Islamabad seized 60kg of pork products from a passenger coming from China.
Sources said the Customs team took the passenger, who had arrived from Urumqi, China, into custody and tried to search her luggage after becoming suspicious of the behaviour of a passenger.
The detained passenger, Zeyang Yu, hailing from Xinjiang, China, claimed she was a diplomat, but failed to produce a diplomatic passport. During scanning of the luggage, they said, customs found 60 kg of packaged pork products in a carton, which was seized and the meat was destroyed.
Meanwhile, several domestic and international flights at BBIA were delayed and Pakistan International Airline (PIA) cancelled four domestic and international flights while eight other domestic flights were delayed because of bad weather.
The Gilgit and Skardu bound flights were cancelled. Similarly, the Gilgit-Islamabad flight PK-606 and the Skardu-Islamabad flight could not take off on the scheduled time because of bad weather conditions.
Flights including PK-373 Islamabad-Karachi, PK-651 Islamabad-Lahore, and PK-301 Islamabad-Karachi were delayed for hours.
Among international flights, PK-741 to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was delayed, whereas CZ-6007 from Urumqi to Islamabad took off late due to bad weather.
The CZ-6007 arrived in Islamabad at 12:30 pm.
PIA authorities have advised passengers to check their flight timings from flight inquiry before leaving for the airport to avoid inconvenience.
