Tag: Container

Largest container ship berths at Port Qasim

Port Qasim Authority (PQA) safely berthed the largest container ship that has ever visited the country’s second largest port. According to a statement issued...

Six held for looting NATO container

The police busted a gang of six members in a raid in Mauripur on Thursday that was allegedly involved in looting a container meant...

NATO containers en-route Pakistan don’t carry arms: WikiLeaks

US Ambassador in Pakistan Anne W Patterson in a cable dated November 17, 2008 sent to Washington denied that the US-Nato military containers en-route...

FIA arrests wanted culprit of the 2009 container case

FIA has arrested the famous wanted culprit of the container case on Friday. Sources told that in 2009 45 people lost their lives while...

Container fraud result of flawed system, PAC told

A probe conducted by the enquiry committee headed by FBR member (Taxpayer Audit) reveals that the fraud of removal of 265 containers from Qasim...

FBR given month to submit report on ISAF container losses

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday granted one month to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to prepare a final report on the whopping losses of Rs 19 billion to Rs 36 billion caused to the national exchequer by the containers meant for supplies to ISAF forces in Afghanistan, which entered the Pakistani territory over the past four years in the name of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and pilfered causing the losses.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad

NATO container gutted, FC men defuse landmine

QUETTA - Unidentified armed men set a NATO container on fire here on Monday while Frontier Corps Balochistan on Monday defused a landmine in another incident. In a raid here the local police also siezed 1000 kilograms of hashish.
During routine patrol Frontier Corps personnel spotted a landmine in Muchh area, some 70 KM southeast of Quetta. They called in mine-sweepers and defused the mine. Separately, a container carrying NATO supplies was coming from Karachi, when armed

A container confiscation a day, keeps freight away

KARACHI: The provincial law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are indirectly inflicting massive losses on the shipping industry by using empty containers to block roads as part of their security measures during annual congregations like Muharram processions, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources in the shipping industry said that it has become a routine matter for the police department to use scores of containers for blocking link roads on the routes of huge gatherings.
The police

Militants torch NATO container

QUETTA: Unidentified men torched a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation supply tanker in Mastung district on Sunday. The container was going to Afghanistan but militants intercepted it at Dasht Bado area of Mastung and set it on fire. No causalities were reported of the incident. Levies officials have started investigation into the incident.