Tag: Smuggling

Saudi Arabia beheaded two nationals on Monday in the eastern province of Al-Ahsa after convicting them of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said. The pair,...

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

Government’s tall claims of establishing ‘Specialised Industrial Zones’ in the country are still a distant dream as no step in this regard...

Despite the efforts being undertaken by the law enforcement agencies of the country, the surge in human trafficking incidents cannot be checked. Though the...

Pakistan holds the world record for the highest per capita tea consumption. According to the Pakistan Food and Drink Report Q2 2010, every Pakistani...

Drug smuggling is in full swing in the French colony situated in F-7/4, in the jurisdiction of Kohsar police station. Drug dealers are...

Branded tea selling companies have proposed that the government lower duties and taxes on the imported commodity as Pakistani consumers were paying fifty per...

The complacency of tax authorities has resulted in a revenue loss of Rs13 billion to the government, as only 87,000 tonnes of tea was...

Foiling an attempt to smuggle arms and narcotics smuggling from the Tribal Areas to the famous arms market in Darra Adam Khel, the Kohat...

Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi dismissed as “ridiculous lies” US claims that Tehran smuggled weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan, the semi-official Fars news agency...

The recently-arrested PIA airhostess and her air steward husband have disclosed that a nephew of parliamentarian Najamuddin Khan had handed them over a suitcase...

and illegal export of animals to neighbouring counties are main causes of shortage of meat and its price hike in the country, University...

KARACHI - Pakistan's war on terror is being seriously hampered because of "massive smuggling" of different items - including arms and ammunition - through the border from Afghanistan, claimed Interior Minister Rehman Malik in his address to cadets of the Pakistan Coast Guards at their passing-out ceremony. "The annual turnover of this illicit trade is five billion rupees," he claimed.
Malik also announced the induction of 83 Baloch youth into the Coast Guards - a step taken on

TEHRAN - Iran on Saturday hanged an Iranian-Dutch woman for drug smuggling after initially arresting her for anti-government protests, the Tehran prosecutor's office said. Zahra Bahrami's execution takes the total number of people hanged in Iran so far this year to 66 - on average more than two a day - according to an AFP tally based on media reports.
The Netherlands summoned Iran's ambassador in the wake of the hanging, the Dutch foreign ministry said. "A drug trafficker named

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture decided to form a sub committee to consider whether to ban gur exports and lifting restrictions imposed on the supply of gur to tribal areas.
Javed Iqbal Warriach chaired the meeting of the committee. Some members were in favour of a ban on gur exports while few members voiced dissent, fearing it would escalate local gur prices in Khyber Phaktunkhwa (KPK), Balochistan and tribal areas.
Briefing the committee,

LAHORE
The automobile spare parts industry is suffering an annual loss of at least Rs 3.5 billion due to smuggling, hand baggage, as well as false declarations and invoicing during legal imports at sea and dry ports, representatives of the industry told Pakistan Today on Tuesday.
The automobile industry has displayed marvellous progress in the last ten years but the auto parts industry is facing huge and mounting losses in the face of the aforementioned problems. They have