PESHAWAR: The Anti-Smuggling Units of the Customs House Peshawar has raided a Godown situated at the Kharkhano Market and seized six truckloads of foreign origin cloths worth millions of rupees on Tuesday.
The customs sources informed Customs Today that raid was conducted after Collector Customs Mohammad Saeed Jadoon received secret information that some smugglers have dumped the contraband item in the said godown.
Upon information passed on by Collector to Customs Deputy Collector Anti-Smuggling Unit Obaid Khan, a raiding team was constituted under the leadership of Superintendent Nasir Bukhari.
The raid was executed on the said market where a huge quantity of non-duty-paid imported cloths was hidden. The cloths were shifted after the confiscation to the Customs House Peshawar in six trucks.
The collector customs has lauded the role of the Anti-Smuggling Units of the Peshawar Customs House for achieving a big target by seizing the NDP cloths.