KHYBER: Customs officials seized a huge quantity of sugar and fertiliser at the Torkham border the other day.
Officials of the customs appraisement department said that they intercepted a vehicle loaded with multiple miscellaneous export goods during routine checking upon suspicion of concealing banned items.
They said upon checking they found 7,700 kilogrammes of DAP fertiliser and 6,000 kilogrammes of sugar, which were concealed under the legal export items.
Driver of the vehicle was arrested and all the export goods were seized.
Meanwhile, the police recovered six kilogrammes of charas from secret cavities of a car in Ali Masjid area.
Published in Dawn,June 13th, 2022
