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Bid to smuggle

scrap foiled

QUETTA: Customs mobile squad seized seven buses near Nou Kundi (Chagai).

According to reports reaching here on Tuesday, customs mobile staff was tipped of smuggling of scrap and other goods into interior of the country.

Customs mobile squad conducted a raid and impounded seven buses near Nou Kundi, loaded with scrap and collers with no passenger.

Meanwhile, scrap dealer in Taftan, a Pak - Iran border town, are on strike for the last few days.

Scores of trucks loaded with scrap are stationed while labourers are jobless.

Scrap traders have accused the government that due to imposition of new taxes traders are faced with problems. They said, besides, difficulties to the people there is also a great loss of taxes to the government because recent taxes have destroyed this business.-PPI