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GUJRANWALA, Aug 22: The local manufacturers and small industrial unit owners have expressed their anguish over smuggling of foreign goods from the tribal areas.
At a meeting held here on Sunday, they said since the Central Board of Revenue had abolished the pickets of anti-smuggling squads and customs intelegence on the GT Road, the smugglers had been supplying foreign goods in the local markets without any fear.
They claimed that the foreign goods worth Rs15 million were being marketed in various districts of the division daily, and the people preferred to buy these goods rather than the locally-manufactured ones. As a result, the business of small industrialists and manufacturers had badly affetcted.
They urged the government and the CBR to take steps to check smuggling by restoring the pickets on the GT Road and taking action against those involved in this business.
ARRESTED: The Wahando police claim to have arrested three robbers when they were fleeing after looting a commission agent of the grain market and recovered illegal arms and looted goods from their possession on Sunday.
Maulvi Shaukat was going to the market when he was intercepted by three armed men near the Wahando Road. They snatched Rs3,600 in cash from him and ordered him to arrange an amount of Rs20,000 within two hours. Shaukat informed the police who arrested the accused.
DIES ON ROAD: A schoolteacher, Dilshad, was killed in a road accident on the GT Road, Kamoki, on Sunday.
