Tag: Customs

Customs officials in Japan appealed for the owners of bank notes, stock certificates and foreign currency seized by occupying forces at the end of...

German customs seized a $1.2 million violin from a Japanese professional musician and are demanding she pay almost $500,000 to get it back, reports...

Our society is facing many problems and those problems that arise due to some of our retrogressive customs are the worst to counter. Violence...

Expressing serious concerns over the performance of the Customs Department regarding smuggled vehicles in Balochistan, the Supreme Court on Monday said law and order...

Around 15 billion smuggled and duty-non-paid cigarettes are sold annually in the country causing loss of more than Rs 10 billion to the national...

A German man stopped at customs with 49 live exotic lizards in his bag claimed they were destined for the cooking pot and even...

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) directed all the Model Customs Collectorates to remain open today on December 24 and 31, 2011 as a normal...

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety”. Many centuries back, William Shakespeare paid a rich and an equally honest tribute to the...

After completion of his deputation, Zulfiqar Ali chaudhry currently posted as Punjab PEMRA regional general manager has been transferred back to his parent department,...

Denying all allegations, Customs Additional Collector Dr Asif Mehmood Jah said the brother of Lahore custom collector was not involved in the smuggling of...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) directed all the Model Customs Collectorates to remain open on Saturday and consider it as a normal working...

Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday appealed to rich people in the society to abandon unnecessary customs, such as over-expenditure on dowry, to ease...

Shah Rukh Khan’s return from his European holiday might not have been as happy as he might have imagined. The actor who returned India...

Lahore Model Customs Collectorate has surpassed the annual target of Rs15.886 billion by Rs369.22 million. The Collectorate has earned Rs16.255 billion during the year...

Gulf Arab states aim to bring a long awaited customs unification into effect in 2015 as they vie to remove hurdles that delayed the...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Customs Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC), Karachi Airport Unit seized 1.5kg heroin concealed in children's jackets inside a postal parcel. The Customs DEC staff, while clearing the outgoing international parcels at the Pakistan Post's Express Mail Service at Shahrah-e-Faisal, intercepted a parcel booked from Gulshan-e-Iqbal Post Office for an address in Birmingham, UK.
A thorough search of the parcel led to the recovery of 500 grams of fine quality heroin in

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the national exchequer suffered a loss of Rs 7 billion due to evasion of customs duty by ISAF containers at the Chaman crossing along the Pak-Afghan border.
Appearing on notice, FBR Chairman Salman Siddique told a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani that a total of 2,981 containers went missing, of which 408