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Joint action planned

against smuggling

RECORDER REPORT

QUETTA: The anti-smuggling coordination committee at its meeting here has decided to take joint action by Coast Guards, Frontier Corps, customs, police and the administration at the district levels against the menace of smuggling.

Official sources said here on Friday that all anti-smuggling agencies and their officials would work individually and collectively to stop the menace by collective raids on smugglers' dens and dumps.

The committee also decided to keep constant watch on smugglers rail and road routes, with focus on railway, highways inter-provincial, inter-division and inter district roads to minimise smuggling.

Meanwhile, a study on bringing into tax net the dealers and shopkeepers dealing in smuggled items at the smugglers markets in Quetta and in the interior of Balochistan is underway. The study would also devise means for broadening tax base in Balochistan.