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he improvement of infrastructure and trade facilitation at the Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa (KP) and MCC Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are the Oirst priorities of the chief collector ofOice (North). The upgrade of port facilities
at the GB and development of traders’ E-facilitation cell at the GB are important to get Oinancial beneOits through China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). This was stated by Chief Collector North Sarwat Tahira Habib while talking to Customs Today during an exclusive interview at the chief collector ofOice on Tuesday. She said the Budget 2017-18 was good enough by keeping the new amendments in
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view with respect to the Customs Act. She told CT that she had made serious efforts for development of North Region like GB and KPK and MCC Islamabad. During the last two Financial Years 2015-16 and 2016-17, she visited Finance Division and Planning Commission (PC) many times and reminded the authorities concerned of the approval of development work at the above said customs stations.
‘Upgradation of infrastructure, facilitation at KP, GB Customs top priority’
Pakistan, Russia agree to take bilateral ties to new level
Pakistan-China to ink accord for a huge steel mill in Gwadar: DC
Hong Kong Customs seizes suspected ivory
Collector Preventive hails team for foiling bid to smuggle 7.75kg heroin to UK
The improvement of infrastructure and trade facilitation at the MCC KP | SEE PAGE 01 |
PM Nawaz held a bilateral meeting with Putin wherein both the leaders reaffirmed | SEE PAGE 02 |
Deputy Chief of Mission, Chinese Embassy Zhao Lijian has said that China | SEE PAGE 04 |
HKCustomsseizedabout47.4kgofsuspected worked ivory and 14.5 kg of suspected | SEE PAGE 07 |
Customs Preventivehas appreciated the team for seizing a huge quantity of heroin | SEE PAGE 08 |
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PFA seizes rotten eggs worth Rs 150 million LAHORE: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) in a raid on a biscuit powder making factory in Manga Mandi area, confiscated more than one million rotten eggs. According to a spokesman of PFA, the factory used to make powder for renowned biscuit factories from eggs. The PFA raided Alwaha Egg Processing unit and seized the eggs worth Rs 15 million. The eggs were rotten to the extent that chicks have been hatched out from some of them. Meanwhile, PFA Director General has said that the factory was sealed few days back however; it was operational illegally.
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rime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif held a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin wherein both the leaders reafOirmed their desire to take the bilateral relations to the next level by enhancing cooperations in multiple spheres. During the meeting took place here on the sidelines of the SCO Summit, the two leaders took a comprehensive review of bilateral relations. They agreed that there was a healthy growth in the relations between two sides and that the highlevel interactions and cordial polit-
Man involved in hundi business arrested LAHORE
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ical relations had set the stage for translating political goodwill into a substantive economic partnership. They viewed that current state of relations between Pakistan and Rus-
Rs37.977m more allocated for Badin coal reserves’ appraisal
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IA Corporate Crime Circle Lahore conducted a raid at Shahalam and arrested a man for doing illegal business of currency exchange/hundi hawala. According to FIA spokesman, the team recovered Rs 774,000, bonds worth Rs 1,074,500, cheque books, ledgers, receipts and other documents regarding hundi hawala. The team arrested the accused,Farman and a case has been registered against him.
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sia was characterized by mutual trust, commonality of interest, better understanding and convergence of views on important issues like regional security, combating terrorism,
drug tracking and greater economic cooperation.Both sides were also working closely to further expand cooperation in educational and cultural Oields. They agreed to work on concrete proposals for the next session of Pakistan-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, ScientiOic, and Technical Cooperation which will take place in Moscow in December this year. It was also noted that the Joint Working Group on Energy was an appropriate mechanism to reinforce existing cooperation in energy sector. The strong interest of Russian companies and enterprises in the energy sector of Pakistan was also highlighted. Russia is already engaged in installation of LPG Air Mix Plants in Pakistan and establishment of a 600MW combined cycle power plant at Jamshoro.
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he government will spend Rs 37.977 million more for appraisal of huge coal reserves confirmed by the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) in the year 2014 after extensive drillings started since 2012. “The government has already released Rs 131.619 million in the current Oiscal year, while Rs 37.977 million more have been allocated to use during the year 2017-18 for ap-
praisal of newly discovered coal resources in Badin and its adjoining areas of Southern Sindh,” ofOicial sources in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources told APP. According to GSP, they said the coal deposits were estimated to be over one billion tones. “The coal is of good quality and high heating value.” Besides, the sources informed that there were substantial deposits of gold, copper and more than 200 mln tonnes of iron ore but these could not be exploited or utilized because of lack of infrastructure and technology. They said efforts were also be-
ing made for exploration of tertiary coal in Central Salt Range, Punjab aimed at meeting the growing domestic energy demand and develop coal Oields and increasing power generation. The sources said exploration of oil, gas, minerals and coal resources was undertaken on regular basis which contributed signiOicant discoveries especially in oil and gas sector. Recent geological investigations have shown that 186 billion tonnes of coal reserves exist in different parts of the country, which could be used as a primary and inexpensive source for power generation.
SNGPL stops gas supply to defaulters LAHORE
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he Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has disconnected defaulting consumers’ connections having cumulative dues amounting to Rs 4 million. According to a spokesman for the SNGPL, Managing Director Amjad Latif ordered for disconnecting supply to government and domestic defaulting consumers. In order to recover the outstanding dues from the government and special domestic consumers in several regions, the SNGPL disconnected gas supply to the following consumers: 25 Barraged HQ Bahawalpur (Rs 588,8701), Punjab Building Department, PWD Secretariat Lahore (Rs 515,600). Commissioner Office Bahawalpur (Rs 453,200), Bilal Habib Ghousia Masjid Multan Road Lahore (Rs 208,870), Highway Division Faisalabad (Rs 188,500), Fire Station Diplomatic Enclaves Sector-5 Markaz Islamabad (Rs 187,620), Masjid Usmania Hazro, Attock (Rs 180,330). NBP Customer Facilitation Centre 504-Stephonson Road Rawalpindi (Rs 180,860), FG Primary School Sector G-7/2-1 Islamabad (Rs 164,290), Jamia Masjid Alfalah, 3-Kohistan Town Taxila (Rs 162,420), Highway Division Kohat Road Fateh Jang.
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entral Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) has achieved Rs 182 billion savings till second months of last quarter of current Oiscal year, from July 1 to May 30, 2016-17. The target for the year 2016-17 was Rs 228 billion, while the Directorate managed to achieve Rs 218
billion for the previous Oiscal year, a CDNS ofOicial. He said the CDNS had notiOied similar proOit rates for various saving certiOicates to beneOit its investors especially the widow and pensioners, which had been unchanged from June 1, 2017. “The consistency in previous rates was made in the backdrop of current market scenario and in accordance with the government’s policy to provide market based competitive rate of return to the in-
vestors of National Savings”, he said. He said as per notiOication issued by the federal government, the rates for Defense Savings CertiOicate, Special Saving CertiOicate and Account, Regular Income CertiOicate and Savings Accounts had been revised upward at an average of 7.54 percent, 6.03 percent, 6.54 percent and 3.95 percent respectively. The ofOicial said the proOit rate of return for specialized savings schemes like Bahbood Savings CertiOicates and
Pensioners’ BeneOit Account had also been revised up and Oixed at 9.36 percent to provide safety net to specialized segments of the society. The CDNS had launched its modernization plan in collaboration with National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT), for facilitating the customers, he said. Meanwhile, The government has launched an ambitious plan for extensive evaluation of metallic minerals’ potential existing in Bela and Uthal areas of district Lasbeela,
Balochistan. “The evaluation is being carried out at a cost of Rs 56.700 million, out of which Rs 20 million have been released during the current year, while Rs 8.9 million will be spent in next Oiscal year for exploration and evaluation of metallic and minerals in the selected areas of Balochistan province.” They said the ministry was consistently offering investment opportunities in the mineral sector and extending maximum incentives to local as well as foreign investors.
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eputy Chief of Mission, Chinese Embassy Zhao Lijian has said that China would set up a large steel factory at Gwadar to further expedite economic developments being carried out under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. Both China and Pakistan will very soon sign an agreement to establish the steel factory, three times bigger than the free economic zone being set up in Gwadar city. In an exclusive interview with Customs Today, Zhao Lijian said that under CPEC there were 39 projects in total and 18 projects are under construction. For Pakistan CPEC is the largest project under Belt and Road initiative. Moreover, no other country has implemented OBOR like Pakistan. He added that he had arranged interviews of scholars to the Chinese journalists on OBOR concept as it was bringing a lot of investment. Pakistan will beneOit the most out of OBOR than other countries. Moreover he added that EastBay Expressway, International
Airport in Gwadar and also ucts. It will increase income of lo- is leading GCC from Chinese side Gwadar Master Plan would be in- cal people and beneOits of CPEC and he was very happy with his augurated; these projects are al- will trickle down not only through visit and after the visit he showed most ready and we are doing Oinal industry but from other sectors me a list 82 MoUs worth $ 24 bilsteps and groundbreaking cere- too. He observed that Chief Min- lion and it is half of the CPEC mony to be held in later half of ister Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Per- amount. He maintained that Most the year. We have 18 projects in vaiz Khattak led a 170 member of the projects under CPEC for progress and will publish delegation to Beijing for a road Balochistan under construction progress report of each project show and during his stay I helped were moving a little bit slowly beseparately. We are going to launch him in holding opening ceremony cause of the fact that most of the progress reports of all these and organized his bilateral meet- projects were being implemented projects soon in mainings with Vice Minister NDRC either by grant or by soft loans. stream newspapers. A who is equal to counter- Commercial projects like energy few days back, he part of Prof Ahsan plants can be completed quickly said that two imbecause the private sector always Iqbal. He portant projects works at better pace than the CPEC Medical public sector which confronts Center and Fishhurdles like ofOicial red-tape. eries Processing However, we are doing a lot for Plant were inauBalochistan and we supgurated in the ported Governor Balochispresence of Chitan to a ten day visit to nese Ambassador, China last November. Pakistani Minister of To question about ional t a n r nte I , Ports and Shipping role of Pakistani y a r sw da x p re s Mir Hasil Khan Bazmedia in higho Gwa E s l y a a d B d; r an e Easta injo and others in lighting Chinese t d a a r u w inaug r t in G Gwadar. Fisheries narrative, Zhao e b d d n l Airpo ou dy a w a processing plant is Lijian said that n e r a l t rP os meant for local Oishmajority of PakMaste re a l m d a n s t a c eps oje r t ermen as Gwadar is istani media outs p l e a s d l fin the be he a Oishing village and lets used to folo doing t e y r n a o we Oish and crabs are low the reports e re m r king c a e r very cheap there. from western mee yea b h d t n f u o g ro Thus, the processing dia especially AFP, r half in late plant can add value to AP and other instead their products and peoof Xinhua. ple can export their prod-
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Challenge of growing debts
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In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank has highlighted the challenges faced by the economy of Pakistan amid growing debts and contingent liabilities. Though the bank projects Pakistan’s economic growth at 5.5 percent in the next fiscal year due to private sector investment, increase in energy supply and improvement in security situation, it also warns against rising circular debt in power sector and uneven debt repayments to international donor agencies. According to the report, Pakistan has recently retired $750 million Euro bond by obtaining $1 billion loan from China, showing that the country is heading toward debt trap. The external debts are growing as exports have been declining and remittances sent by Pakistani expatriates have started declining. The external debt servicing consumed $3.9 billion from July to March of the current fiscal year. The circular debt of power sector has increased to Rs412 billion and the Water and Power Ministry has sought over Rs100 billion to clear immediate liabilities. Experts believe in the absence of real growth in industrial and agriculture sectors, the coming years will have devastating impacts on the economy. The debt servicing consumed 24.2 percent of export receipts in nine months, which is the highest figure in one and half decades. The government is fully relying on the economic corridor projects and soft loans from Chinese investors which could add to the economic woes. Newspaper reports suggest that the government has issued fresh guarantees of Rs368 billion, equivalent to 1.2 percent of its Gross Domestic Product which could not exceed more than two percent of the GDP in any fiscal year under the Fiscal Responsibility and Debt Limitation Act of 2005. This ratio of guarantees, however, remained below one percent of the GDP except in 2009 and in 2010 when they crossed 2.2 and 1.2 per cent, respectively, during the tenure of the Pakistan People’s Party. The bank emphasized for the establishment of peace and security in Afghanistan to guarantee investment in Pakistan and rising tensions between India and Pakistan could also aect economic activities in the two countries. In the current situation, the government will have to concentrate on the agriculture and industrial sectors if it wants to achieve macroeconomic stability and will have to minimize its reliance on foreign loans.
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he real estate sector is thriving and is working as a driving force to stimulate the economy and that also without any government help and grant. At least 80 major industries are directly or indirectly associated with the real estate sector, including construction industry and many allied industries. However, the government is comes up with one step or the other every year to add some extra trouble on the stakeholders involved in the business and falter the rally of
growth and gains half way. Economists take construction boom as integral to economic prosperity. The housing and infrastructural projects create great demand for cement, steel, bricks, glass, aluminum and dozens of other industries and not only are they a source of government taxes, but also jobs and development. However, it is hard to understand who whispers in the ears of the bureaucracy to stop smooth running of the business and stimulation of the economy. According to newspaper reports, the government is considering increasing property valuation rates by about 30
percent in major cities of the country from July, creating an unexpected stir in this vital sector where the real estate agents and investors are already struggling to sustain their businesses for the last couple of years. The official bureaucracy, in a bid to enhance its revenues, introduces novel ways to extract money and sometimes the effort backfires. There is a need to note that the government will earn a few billion rupees by enhancing the property valuation rates, but the move could increase the cost of infrastructural development projects in the country. The housing industry will
also be adversely hit at the end. It is hoped the government will depute a team of experts to devise a comprehensive tax system for the country, involving all the stakeholders from all the sectors of the economy. A general discussion is necessary to reach a conclusion and, given the rapid changes in the economy, the need to improve the current tax regime has been multiplied. As the population of the country is growing, the list of mega cities will increase and introduction as well as construction of new housing projects will definitely increase the government revenues in the form of taxes.
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Iraq looking to hedge its crude production Monday June 12, 2017
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BAGHDAD: Iraq may look at hedging part of its crude oil production, the head of the Opec member’s oil marketer Somo said, as a way to protect government revenue against the risk of oil price volatility. “It is in our strategy in the future that maybe we will consider hedging part of Iraqi crude … Somo is floating an idea now and this is yet to be studied,” Falah Al Amri, who is also Iraq’s Opec governor, told Reuters in an interview. It is not clear what type of hedging might be considered by Somo. Some organisations, such as Mexican oil monopoly Pemex, seek to ensure oil is sold at a guaranteed fixed price throughout the year, while others, such as Shell and BP, hedge their sales against short term oil price volatility.
Hong Kong Customs seizes suspected ivory
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French inflation falls to five-month low of 0.9% rance’s inflation rate has fallen to its lowest level in five months in May as the spike in prices seen across the eurozone earlier this year falls back across the continent. Annual consumer price growth slipped more than expected to 0.9 per cent in May after holding at 1.4 per cent for the last three months. The reading is lower than a 1.1 per cent forecast compiled by Bloomberg. Despite a surge in inflation in February to four-year highs in the likes of Germany and Spain, France’s inflation rate has remained more subdued despite climbing energy costs. The average eurozone inflation reading will be released later this morning (10.00 BST). Economists are forecasting a decline from 1.9 per cent to 1.5 in May, with the closelywatched core rate down to 1 per cent from 1.2 per cent.
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Animals and Plants Ordinance, any person found guilty of importing or exporting an endangered species without a licence is liable to a maximum Oine of $5 million and imprisonment for two years. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Customs yesterday seized about 7 200 kilograms of suspected pangolin scales from a container with an estimated
market value of about $4.6 million at the Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound. Through risk assessment, Customs ofOicers inspected a 20-foot container declared to contain charcoal arriving in Hong Kong from Nigeria. Upon inspection, Customs ofOicers found the suspected pangolin scales in the container.
Kosovo, Switzerland sign agreement on double taxation
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osovo and Switzerland signed an agreement regulating taxation of income and capital, which is beneOicial for both countries, the Swiss federal government said. Under the agreement on double taxation dividends will be taxed at source at a maximum rate of 15%, while qualiOied participations – at no more than 5%, the Federal Council of Switzerland said in a statement published on its website. The agree-
ment envisages royalties to be taxed only in the beneOicial owner’s state of domicile. The two countries have had no such agreement since 2011. “The agreement will ensure legal certainty and a contractual framework that will have a beneOicial impact on the two states’ economic relations,” the Council’s statement reads. The agreement includes a clause to combat base erosion and proOit shifting.
he enormous Oigure reOlects not just the cost of Oighting like guns, trucks and fuel but also the long-term cost of providing medical care and disability compensation for decades beyond the end of the conOlict. Consider the fact that beneOits for World War I veterans didn’t peak until 1969. For World War II veterans, the peak came in 1986. Payments for Vietnam-era vets are still climbing. The high rates of injuries and increased survival rates in Iraq and Afghanistan mean that over half the 2.5 million who served there suffered some degree of disability. Their health care and disability beneOits alone will easily cost $1 trillion in coming decades. But instead of facing up to these huge costs, we have charged them to
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Jordan taps into global fertiliser demand n mid-March the country’s sole phosphate producer, state-owned Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), announced a sales contract with a group of Indian Oirms to provide 5.2m tonnes of phosphate ore a raw material used in the production of fertiliser in 2017. Though its value has yet to be made public, the deal stipulates that sales prices will be set in line with prevailing global market conditions. The agreement builds on existing trade relations between the two countries. In 2015 Jordan inaugurated an $860m sulphuric acid plant at Eshidiya, 325 km outside of Am-
Michigan bids for $7b plant by Foxconn
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he state of Michigan is hoping to use some proposed tax incentives to lure Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, according to two sources knowledgeable about the state’s efforts. The company, which produces
television screens, wants to invest $7 billion in a production plant in the United States. Foxconn founder and CEO Terry Guo told reporters in January that he wanted to invest in the United States, but would need economic incentives to do so. The “Good Jobs for Michigan” tax incentives, which have passed the Senate but not the House of
the national credit card. This means that our children will be forced to pay the bill for the wars started by our generation. Unless we set aside money today, it is likely that young people now Oighting in Afghanistan will be shortchanged in the future just when they most need medical care and beneOits. While most Americans are keen to “support our troops,” we aren’t currently shouldering the Oinancial or the physical burden of our nation’s warfare. Except for a short period between the two world wars, the percentage of the general population now serving in the U.S. armed forces is at its lowest level ever. What’s more, the war in Afghanistan barely features on our front pages. During the past two years it has not even made it into the top 10 news stories. There is not much pain in our pocketbooks either. In past wars, taxpayers were forced to cover some of the extra spending. During Vietnam, marginal tax rates for the top 1 percent of earners were hiked to 77 percent.
Representatives, would be tailormade for companies that want to make big investments in the state. On Mackinac Island Thursday, Gov. Rick Snyder and a host of business and economic development officials implored the House of Representatives to pass the incentives quickly in order to help lure companies who might want to relocate to Michigan.
man, through a joint venture between JPMC and the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative partly aimed at helping meet India’s growing demand for phosphate. Further good news for the industry came in February, when JPMC signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Bangladesh to export 270,000 tonnes of phosphate and phosphoric acid over three years – a deal valued at $280m. The agreement revives a partnership between the two nations, with JPMC having been the chief supplier of fertiliser to Bangladesh in the past.
Snyder wouldn’t identify any companies that he’s working with, but said, “These are companies I’ve talked to or consultants for those companies. There are a couple that are in the 2,000-job range that are active opportunities. Your next question is who, and I’m not going to tell you. But we could lose opportunities if this doesn’t take place in the next month or so.”
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NDP Toyota vehicle valued Rs1.00 million impounded HYDERABAD: The Model Customs Collectorate, Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO), Customs Preventive Hyderabad, has impounded a non-dutypaid vehicle Toyota Hilux Surf worth Rs1.00million involving duty & taxes of Rs1.4million during a raid. The ASO team, following the guidelines of Collector Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Hyderabad Akhlaq Ahmad Khattaq under the supervision of Additional Collector Rehmatulah Vistro, conducted a raid to impound the said vehicle.
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Collector Preventive hails team for foiling bid to smuggle 7.75kg heroin to UK KARACHI MUBEEN HUSSAIN
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ollector Customs Preventive Saifuddin Junejo has appreciated the team for seizing a huge quantity of heroin at Jinnah International Airport (JIAP). Talking to the media, Collector Customs Preventive Saifuddin Junejo gave a detailed brieOing on seizing the huge quantity of heroin during a raid at the departure lounge of the Karachi airport. He said that the Collector Customs Preventive ofOicers intercepted a passenger named Jawed Ali son of Qurban Ali on Thursday and recovered the heroin which was concealed in secret places of his bag. Saifuddin Junejo said that the suspect is a British national and holds UK passport No 502040085. The light brown heroin powder weighting 7.75 kilograms was canceled in the hidden places of his bag. He was carrying three suitcases, Junejo said. He said that the suspect was traveling to UK via Muscat through M/s Oman Airlines Olight No WY326/WY-103. The worth of the drug is Rs 77.5 million in the international market. The Collector Cus-
toms Preventive Saif Uddin Junejo further informed that the accused passenger Jawed Ali son of Qurban
Ali was arrested and FIR bearing No DEC-08/2017, JIAP (departure) has been lodged in the competent court
of Law and further investigation of the case in underway. The Collector Customs Preventive appreciated the
team for the performance and asked it to keep its morale high and be vigilant to curb drugs smuggling.
Customs Court grants bail to suspects in tax evasion case KARACHI
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ustoms Taxation and AntiSmuggling Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi has granted interim pre-arrest bail to suspects namely Muhammad Wajid Khan and Muhammad Pervaiz, who were booked in a case of mis-declaration and tax evasion to the tune of Rs 2,605,716.
During the hearing, the suspects appeared before the court along with their counsel who submitted that his clients were falsely implicated in this case and are ready to face trail, therefore, the court may grant them bail till the Oinal judgment of this case. After his arguments, the court granted them bail against the surety of Rs 200,000 each. The court also issued notices to the investigation ofOicer and the special prosecutor of the Customs Department to Oile their replies on the next date of hearing. The court also directed the suspects to ap-
pear before the court on the next date of hearing. According to the prosecution, a case was registered against them under section 2 (s), 16, 32, (1) (2) and 192 of the Customs Act 1969 punishable under clauses 8, 14, 63, 86 and 89 ibid read with SRO 566 (I) 2005 dated 06/06/2005 and section 3 (3) of the import and export control act, 1950 read with serial no 23 & 24 of appendix-A of import policy in vogue and further read with section 148 of in the Income Tax Ordinance 2001. Meanwhile, Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi has
directed the investigation ofOicer to complete investigations and arrest the unidentiOied suspects who are booked in a case of a non-duty paid Toyota Premio car case. During the hearing, investigation ofOicer submitted a FIR against unidentiOied suspects and informed the court that a team of the customs staff intercepted the vehicle bearing registration no AAH-747. He said that the suspects had evaded duty and taxes to the tune of Rs 3,137,736. He also informed the court that the suspects had dodged the customs team which waited for considerable time but no one turned-up to claim the ve-
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hicle. He added that during the detailed search of the abandoned car, no documents regarding the registration and import/procurement of the car was found. Therefore, the vehicle was taken into possession for veriOication and investigation. He said that during the examination, it was revealed that it has Chassis No:ZZT2400140149, Model 2007 (as per seat belt), used in condition and the Forensic Test Report informed that no other number has been deciphered under the present chassis serial ZZT240-0140149 and no record has been found in the system against the import of the vehicle.