GWADAR: The Customs Collectorate has seized huge quantity of electronics kitchen items worth Rs 10.25 million on Friday afternoon.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Collector Gwadar Junaid Mehmood received secret information that some smugglers are trying to smuggle large quantity of electronics kitchen items from Gwadar to Karachi.
After receiving this information, he constituted a raiding team under the supervision of Customs Preventive Inspector Waheed Salman, Mukhtar Khan and others. The team, during a search operation near highway intercepted a truck bearing registration no MFT-8750.
During a search, the team impounded 200 new branded electric stoves, 3,000 chargeable fire fighters and other accessories valued at Rs 10.25 million including truck being used in smuggling.
The team seized all the smuggled items and arrested the two smugglers including truck driver, who were later identified Arbaz Waseem and other. Sources told that a case of smuggling will be registered after completion of initial investigations.