PESHAWAR, May 22: Chairman of the Frontier Customs Agents Group, Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, has asked the federal government to revive its ‘vehicle amnesty scheme’ to give legal status to hundreds of smuggled vehicles plying the roads in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

In a press statement issued here, Mr Sarhadi said that the government would get revenue through this scheme, and the vehicles would get legal status.

Mr Sarhadi said that the vehicles smuggled from Afghanistan were being freely used in Chaman, Torghundi, Miramshah, Swat, Ghalanai, Gandhab, Bajaur Agency and in Jammu and Kashmir.

The chairman of the Frontier Customs Agents Group said that smuggling had caused great loss to the national exchequer.

He said that owners of such cars could easily regularize their vehicles through the ‘vehicle amnesty scheme’.—PPI