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ISLAMABAD: Former chairman FBR Shabbar Zaidi has made a startling disclosure that $150 billion owned by Pakistani businessmen are stashed in foreign bank accounts,...

Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has intensified its operations against illicit and smuggled cigarettes across the country. “Tobacco sector is one of the...

Pakistan Customs, being the lead agency in counter-smuggling, along with frontier corps and Balochistan police, raided a showroom in Quetta, near Chamman Highway and...

Wildlife trade has been rampant in Pakistan for decades. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), wildlife crime is the...

Islamabad: Activists from Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF) and Peoples Students Federation (PSF) have demanded Azad Kashmir government to constitute a judicial commission to probe...

LAHORE: The government has proposed penalties of up to Rs1 million for manufacturing and selling substandard, adulterated and counterfeit cosmetic products. The Government of Punjab...

A meeting of the Pakistan Medical Association held at the PMA House took serious notice of the news of an American broadcast in which...

PESHAWAR: Illegal mining is going on unabated across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. An official report revealed that illegal mining of sand, crush, stones, nephrite, granite, phosphate,...

Counterfeit items are low-quality imitations of original items. While the products may look alike, they differ in quality to the original products. The money...

Counterfeit products have gained popularity and exposure in the past few years. Cheap watch suppliers, replica designer clothing, branded shoes and many more products...

Women and makeup go hand in hand and as a consumer, there is nothing like getting your hands on the latest beauty product being...

The biggest black market in today's time is the sale of illegal goods. Every-time you come across a haul of fake designer goods you...

Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) team thwarted a drug smuggling bid and seized 15 kilograms of heroin at Rawalpindi airport, on Friday. According to official sources, the...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Monday launched a crackdown against the traders/businessmen involved in selling of counterfeit cigarettes, but also started nationwide awareness...

Pakistan Customs on Thursday raided a warehouse in Kuchlak area of Balochistan province and recovered a huge quantity of smuggled items, ARY NEWS reported. According...

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight attendant was suspended on Wednesday after she was caught smuggling hundreds of thousands of rupees worth of gold from...

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi on Wednesday completed his five-day official visit to Sri Lanka aimed at strengthening naval ties...

Iran’s Islamist rulers, who sparked deadly domestic unrest by raising gas prices in November, say their controversial move also has failed to ease fuel...

As technology has advanced, products that are fake and illegal have also become tricky to spot. Counterfeit products have become widely available in markets, and...

The smuggling of various food items including wheat and wheat related products to Afghanistan has become a challenge for the government despite the presence...

The Customs Intelligence team seized a huge quantity of smuggled tobacco, cigarettes and cigars on Saturday. According to sources, the customs intelligence team conducted raid...

According to estimates by the Pakistani authorities, some 30,000 to 40,000 people from Pakistan attempt illegal passage to Europe via Iran and Turkey every...

The Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has directed the FBR to constitute a joint task force of Customs and law-enforcing agencies to control smuggling, transportation...

An Army soldier and two others have been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs and weapons from Indo-Pak border using GPS-fitted drones. Punjab police chief Dinakar...

The Federal Board of Revenue's (FBR) directorate general of intelligence and investigation (DG I&I) has claimed a big victory in the campaign against bootlegged...

The anti-smuggling staff of Customs, Faisalabad has unearthed Rs400 million worth of smuggling cases in the last six months while the culprits involved in...

Cancer is a leading cause of death; it is responsible for more than 9.6 million deaths globally. In Pakistan, oral cancer is the second...

Like most developing economies around the world, Pakistan too has suffered greatly from the trade of counterfeit goods. From clothing to smartphones and cigarettes...

Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Monday foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs at Hub check post near Karachi, ARY News reported. According to Rangers spokesman, the...

The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) team on Monday foiled a bid to smuggle heroin from Allama Iqbal International airport in Lahore. As per details, the ANF...