Customs seizes seven trucks loaded with smuggled cloth in Karachi

The Pakistan Customs Intelligence Sunday seized seven trucks loaded with smuggled cloth during a raid at a warehouse in Karachi.

Customs Deputy Collector Amjad Rajpar said that they had seized seven trucks of smuggled foreign clothes and the smuggling had caused a loss of Rs50 million to the national exchequer because traders had not paid the tax.

Footage aired by media shows trucks loaded with bundles of cloth parked in a large compound.

“Smuggled goods are being hidden in the upscale areas of Karachi,” Rajpar told media.

He said Pakistan Customs teams were trying to seize non-custom-paid goods to recover the loss to the exchequer.

Meanwhile, traders have called the raid a “criminal act” and want an investigation into it.