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Millions of rupees

contraband

items seized

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: The Pakistan Coast Guards has seized huge quantity of smuggled electronics and other contraband items worth million of rupees during checking at Shahra-e-Faisal and railway station, a press release said on Monday.

The press release said that the seized goods were smuggled into the city by air by the khepias or by the regular traffickers in connivance with the officials concerned posted at the airport.

The seized items include CD players, TV sets, telephone sets, watches, cameras, artificial jewellery, cosmetic items, digital satellite receivers, and cloth.

The Director General of the Pakistan Coast Guards Brig. Zafar Mahmud has warned the smugglers and those who connive in the illegal activities of strict action against them.

In the meanwhile, Coast Guards has beefed up its surveillance activities along the coastal areas to check smuggling through sea routes.