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In 2018, Pakistan had emerged as the topmost country in Asia with illicit cigarette trade that amounted to a whopping 32.6 billion cigarettes annually. Oxford...

Pakistan Customs has issued instructions to all its field formations to verify the genuineness of all seized conveyances being used to transport smuggled goods...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has introduced a new passenger identification system at all airports in the country for the procurement and...

The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the relevant authorities on Monday to continue with the on-going crackdown on the manufacture and sale of gutka...

The government is committed to end smuggling and encourage legal trade with neighbouring countries including Iran and Afghanistan, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Commerce...

Chewing of gutka (a kind of tobacco) can lead to imprisonment of one to six years in jail, according to a newly proposed bill...

In June 2019, the federal government made it mandatory for all international travelers to pay duty on smartphones being brought inside the country. Through...

The police foiled a bid to smuggle 37-kilogram narcotics to Punjab, impounded a car and arrested a drugs pusher. The police during snap checking of...

Over the last couple of months, several Chinese nationals have been arrested from the central regions of Pakistan for allegedly trying to smuggle local...

Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) and Pakistan Customs in an joint operation arrested twelve drug-smugglers and recovered drugs worth rs 2.74 billion from their...

"Some 512 artefacts dating back to second and third millennium BC, stolen and smuggled from Pakistan to France" have returned to Pakistan, the...

The ban on the sale of loose and smuggled cigarettes to underage introduced by the policy makers to reduce smoking habit among youth are...

ISLAMABAD: The local tyre industry has expressed concern over a slowdown in the government’s crackdown against the menace of smuggling. The industry insiders have...

A Customs court in Karachi has indicted Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Muhammad Aslam Khan in a case pertaining to alleged smuggling and tax evasion,...

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the government’s stringent policies have stabilised the country’s economic situation as well as restored the confidence of the...

Expressing serious resentment over the performance of police to curb the menace of gutka and mainpuri, the Sindh High Court on Wednesday said that...

Man caught trying to smuggle more than 6000 capsules filled with intoxicants at the Allama Iqbal International Airport today (Wednesday), ARY News reported. Security agencies...

KARACHI: Pakistan is just 70 years old, but it is situated in a region that had been home to the centuries-old civilisations like Mehrgarh,...

KARACHI: Pakistan is just 70 years old, but it is situated in a region that had been home to the centuries-old civilisations like Mehrgarh,...

PESHAWAR: The top court of the province on Wednesday halted the illegal trade of sacrificial animals with neighbouring Afghanistan. This was directed on Wednesday by...

KARACHI: Sindh Rangers claimed to have arrested four suspects from different areas of Karachi on Sunday. They were allegedly involved in robberies, street crime and...

PESHAWAR: The growers have opposed massive cut to the advance tax on tobacco insisting the government’s move will encourage the black marketing of the...

کاشتکاروں کی تنظیموں کو حکومت پر دبائو ڈالنے کیلئے استعمال کیا جا رہا ہے ، پریس کانفرنس اسلام آباد (اپنے رپورٹرسے ) خیبر پختونخوا سے...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has cautioned that any move to withdraw adjustable tax on tobacco purchase would have serious negative implications on...

ISLAMABAD: While a group of tobacco growers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) kept protesting against advance tax introduced in the budget 2019-20, another group, which...

After abolition of the third-tier in budget (2019-20), the minimum price of legal brand of cigarette pack now stood at Rs 75-165 per pack...

Lahore: The Pakistan Customs Collectorate Preventive team raided a godown in Lahore, seizing imported cloth weighing 60 tons, worth approximately Rs100 million. Jawwad Owais Agha,...

The Model Customs Collectorate, Islamabad on Tuesday made a major seizure of 11400 kg of betel nuts and different brands of foreign cigarettes having...

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halaal Food Authority (KPFSA) on Tuesday sealed a food company’s distribution outlet over noncompliance with food safety standards. The brand...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Authority on Tuesday sealed a famous brand's distribution outlet over noncompliance with food safety standards. Director General KP Food Authority Riaz...