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Karachi: Organized groups of smugglers have started adopting innovative methods of transporting the smuggled hazardous drug to Karachi.
Anti-trafficking team of Directorate Customs Intelligence and Investigation, Karachi, with the help of its secret network, intercepted a Bedford truck bound for Karachi city from Northern Bypass and foiled an attempt to smuggle dangerous health pills under the guise of animal dung. gave
Deputy Director Customs Intelligence Inam Wazir told Express that Director Karachi Saqif Saeed had received a tip-off that dried cattle dung (which is delivered daily by trucks to various nurseries in the city) was carrying smuggled bark. is being done
Anti-Smuggling Team of Customs Intelligence secretly monitored the movement of all such vehicles coming towards Karachi city and as a result tried to stop a suspicious Bedford truck registration number AE-0071 on Nazimabad road but the driver failed. Instead of stopping, he tried to escape and the team chased him and managed to stop him.
When the anti-smuggling team inquired about the load on the truck, the driver said that he had loaded animal dung from the Northern Bypass area for delivery to the city’s nursery area. Unsatisfied with the driver’s response, the said truck was taken into custody
A detailed examination of the truck was carried out at the Customs Intelligence Headquarters, and it was surprisingly revealed that there were 280 bags of unsanitary chalia worth more than one crore rupees under the animal dung in the truck. The directorate registered a case and seized the truck containing the smuggled noxious medicine.
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