Prohibited goods recovered from plane at Islamabad airport, female passenger arrested

At New Islamabad International Airport, due to the negligence or alleged collusion of ASF, Customs and ANF personnel, the luggage of the female passenger reached the plane bound for Saudi Arabia with prohibited items.

FIA Immigration thwarted the smuggling attempt by offloading the female passenger and luggage and handed over the woman along with the luggage to customs.

The briefing of flight number SV 725 from Islamabad Airport to Saudi Arabia was going on when a female passenger named Kiran from Lahore reached the departure lounge for the journey and after getting clearance from the red counters of ASF, Customs and ANF. When she reached the immigration counter after boarding, the immigration staff considered her suspicious, but when the woman’s travel documents were correct, the immigration officials checked the woman’s luggage, which had arrived on the plane after clearing the counters of the three departments for baggage search. decided to

The airline management was asked to recall the luggage from the plane and the woman’s luggage was unloaded and checked, then 638 packets of well-known brand cigarettes, 200 boxes of Velo, and 238 packets of gutka were recovered from the luggage, on which the woman was offloaded. Goods were handed over to customs

ASF-Customs and ANF personnel were overwhelmed by the export of excessive quantity of prohibited items. Despite the presence of scanning and the network of the three departments, an investigation has been started as to how the above items were cleared and reached the plane.