LAHORE: Customs officials impounded valuable cloth of foreign origin, non-duty paid cigarettes and cigars worth Rs 11 million, official sources said.
Sources said that four scouts of anti-smuggling collectively raided a bus at Shera Kot upon information received by Customs Collector Junaid Akram and confiscated 50,000 metres of imported cloth weighing five tons and eight cartons containing non-duty paid cigars and cigarettes.
They said that a case has been registered against the responsible who tried to dump local market with such a heavy quantity of non-duty paid cloth, cigarettes and cigars damaging the local businesses, properly paying taxes and duties.