Customs staff at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore is on high alert to thwart attempts of smuggling of foreign currency, drugs, gold and other contrabands. Special teams have been constituted to search suspected international flights and to monitor all the entry and exit points at the airport.
As part of this initiative, Collector of Customs Preventive Lahore, Zulfiqar Younas visited Lahore Airport along with the Regional Director Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) Punjab Brigadier Khalid Goraya on Tuesday and inspected arrangements. They discussed various proposals to improve upon information sharing, pooling of human and material resources for joint operations and to enhance overall effectiveness of their agencies.
The Regional Director, ANF instructed his field staff to extend all human and material co-operation to Pakistan Customs to make Lahore Airport free from menace of smuggling of goods, currency and drugs. This enhanced co-operation between the two main agencies is expected to boost the Government's war against the smugglers. It will help further to plug the loopholes and ensure fool proof system to counter smuggling.