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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Customs has confiscated non-duty paid cigarettes worth Rs549 million during first seven months of the current fiscal year, a statement said on...

Islamabad: Pakistan government has intensified its crackdown against smuggled and substandard petroleum products across the country, causing loss of Rs150 billion to the national...

ISLAMABAD: Japanese government has swung into action to crack down on clearance of imported cars on forged and fake documents in Pakistan, it said...

ISLAMABAD: Japanese government has swung into action to crack down on clearance of imported cars on forged and fake documents in Pakistan, it said...

The Authorities Had Reportedly Failed to Enforce The Policy Properly, Resulting In The Illegal Trade Of Cars Using Forged Documents Japan has had it with...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Monday kicked off a major drive against 195 illegal petrol retail outlets in three provinces on...

THE government wants to put a stop to the widespread smuggling of cheap, low quality Iranian petrol and diesel into the country through Balochistan....

LAHORE: Illegal trade is a major threat to the country’s economy and there is a dire need for documentation to address the issue, said...

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...