RAWALPINDI - Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) foiled yet another bid of heroin smuggling at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on wee hours of Tuesday and recovered 7.5 kg heroin and nabbed the smuggler.According to ANF spokesman, the force received information that some international drug trafficker ...

MOSCOW : The Russian prison service said Monday it had caught a cat being used as a courier to smuggle banned cell phones and chargers into a prison camp in the country's remote far north.The prison service in the Komi region said on its website that the cat was detained Friday evening as it ...

ISLAMABAD - Tarnol police on Saturday foiled a bid of drugs smuggling and recovered 285 kilograms of hashish being transported from Peshawar to Gujrat.Addressing a press conference, SP (Saddar Zone) Jamil Ahmed Hashmi said special information was received regarding a possible attempt of smuggling ...

RawalpindiThe Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) foiled a bid of smuggling here at Benazir Bhutto International Airport and recovered more than 2-kg heroin from a smuggler, informed force spokesman on Tuesday.The smuggler, who was later identified as Malik Muhammad Faisal son of Malik Muhammad Shafi ...

SIALKOTThe Airport Security Force (ASF) and Customs officials have foiled a bid to smuggle gold and foreign currency to Sharjah from Sialkot International Airport and arrested two accused said to be Sialkot based exporters involved in the scam.The Customs officials told the newsmen here that on a ...

LAHORE - Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday called for barter trade with Iran, as smuggling is not only widening the trade deficit but also causing huge loss to the exchequer.LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar was talking to a 10-member Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association ...

OTTAWA (AFP)Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu, former researchers at the CFIA, are accused of attempting to export harmful pathogens that could infect ...

LAHORE - Collector Customs Junaid Akram has said that enforcement mechanism has been restructured and further strengthened to weed out the menace of smuggling that is hitting hard the government revenues and the genuine businessmen. Junaid Akram said that the department of Customs Preventive is ...

LAHORE (PR) – SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry Vice President Iftikhar Ali Malik expressed concern over the violation of Intellectual Property Rights and smuggling of fake & imitation goods in the meeting of Sub-Committee of Business Persons Council formed by Prime Minister of ...

PESHAWAR - The city police arrested two persons and foiled a major arms smuggling bid to Punjab here on Thursday.Talking to media persons, DSP Saddar Circle Sajjad Khan said they received a tip-off regarding smuggling of arms to Punjab. The weapons recovered included 10 AK-47 riffles, 40 pistols ...

KARACHI (APP) - Action against alleged smuggling of dollars to Afghanistan will begin tonight, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said here Saturday evening. The interior Minister also said the price of dollar will see a downslide in next couple of days. He was talking to newsmen after meeting with a ...

A top American general in Afghanistan has expressed serious concern over the continued smuggling of ammonium nitrate, a key ingredient for making bombs, from Pakistan into the strife-torn country. Army Major General Daniel Allyn, Commanding General, Regional Command East, Afghanistan told Pentagon ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The attempt of smuggling goods of millions of rupees was foiled by Anti Smuggling Organization Lahore. According to a press release issued by the spokesman, the ASO captured 6 smuggled vehicles of rupees 5.6 million. Besides, the team, under the supervision of assistant ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER ISLAMABAD - Directorate General Intelligence & Investigation of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has detected 92 cases of seizure of smuggled/ contraband items having CIF value of Rs128.32 million during the month of May, 2011. The seized goods include 1.0 kg heroin, 197 kg ...

Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs said Haj Pilgrims are instructed to be careful of drug smuggling as the offense is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Talking to private TV channel here on Saturday Hamid Saeed Kazmi said all Haj Pilgrims are instructed to be aware of drug ...

Drug smuggling is in full swing in Tench Bhatta and putting the lives of youngsters on stake while the police is playing role of silence spectator. Talking to Online news agency here on Tuesday the residents of Tench Bhatta complained that drug, Chars and Heroin smuggling is in full swing in the ...

The slum dwellers of Christian colony Nazirabad have demanded of department of Anti Narcotics to take strict action against drug smuggling in the colony. Talking to this with media here on Friday the residents of Nazirabad complained that drug smuggling is in full swing in the colony. Aamir Masih ...

PESHAWAR With the traditional means of generating income drying up, the Taliban militants have found a new source of income in the shape of smuggling tobacco products, mainly cigarettes, across the border and within Pakistan. According to the sources, in order to fund their terrorist activities, ...

Drug smuggling with the liaison of city police station is in full swing in Jehlum while the residents have demanded to halt drug smuggling. Talking to this news agency here on Friday, the residents of muhalla Mchine, Islam Pura, Muhammadi Chowk and kala Gujran of the district complaint that drug ...

KARACHI (APP) - The national exchequer has sustained a revenue loss of Rs 382.666 million on account of tea smuggling under Afghan Transit Trade (ATTA) facility during January 2010. Chairman Pakistan Tea Association Mohammad Hanif Janoo said here Wednesday that a total of 554 containers of imported ...

KARACHI - The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) has recommended that agreement of a 'quantitative ceiling for imports for Afghanistan (Afghan Transit Treaty) and streamlining of exchange control mechanism is required so that administrative and economic barriers are placed ...

ISLAMABAD - Provided the government procured wheat from the farmers at the promised price of Rs 950 per 40 kilogram and also made possible the availability of same price to them from the open market, there would be least chances of smuggling of the product this year, said Khawaja Shoaib, President ...

Heroin smuggling into India from Afghanistan and Pakistan has increased over the last two years with West Africans often arrested as carriers, says a new State Department report. "This trend may continue as the border between Pakistan and India opens up to increasing commerce and travel," warns the ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Tea Association (PTA) Chairman M Hanif Janoo along with its members met Sultan Ahmed Chawla, President FPCCI here in Federation House the other day. Zakaria Usman, Mansha Churra and Mumtaz Sheikh Vice Presidents of FPCCI and MA Lodhi, Secretary General FPCCI also participated ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni signed a deal here Friday aimed at halting arms smuggling into Gaza as part of efforts to clinch a ceasefire. Speaking at a hastily-arranged signing ceremony in Washington, Rice said the deal ...

Former England all-rounder Chris Lewis was remanded in custody on Wednesday after being charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of 200,000 pounds into Britain. The 40-year-old was arrested on December 8 after border control officers at London's Gatwick airport ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Indian government has arrested a few persons from Supaul (Bihar) and Birbum (West Bengal) who have been involved in smuggling of nuclear material and technology to several countries, including Iran. They are linked with a group that carries on its activities with impunity ...

KARACHI - The increase in custom duty rates on the import of luxury electronics goods aimed at increasing revenue collection for the year 2008-09, but this step is likely to hamper the sales and promote the smuggling of these items into the local electronics market, dealers opined. In the ...