Customs foils smuggling bids worth Rs74.4m in KP

The Collectorate of Customs Enforcement, Peshawar, has seized smuggled goods worth an estimated Rs74.4 million in a series of coordinated operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) said on Sunday. In the largest action, the Enforcement Division in D.I. Khan intercepted three trucks carrying 12,200 kg of smuggled betel nuts, 4,021 sleeves of foreign-origin cigarettes, and 170 tyres. The goods and vehicles, valued at Rs54.5 million, were taken into custody. Customs officials in D.I. Khan also confiscated non-duty-paid cosmetics, including creams, lotions, shampoos, and petroleum jelly, recovered from passenger vehicles. The seized items are valued at Rs2.4 million.