TORKHAM: A top-ranking Pakistan Customs official on Monday said in the limited resources and ground hurdles, they have made record seizures of different contraband items, including currency and gold in Torkham in the past one year. Additional collector custom Peshawar Syed Muhammad Zakir told The News that they have reshaped their strategies and search methodologies
Read more
TORKHAM: Newly posted customs collector Enforcement Peshawar visited Torkham border on Tuesday and inspected various customs sections, officials said. Torkham customs official Wajid Khan told The Daily Vendor correspondent that customs collector enforcement Khuwaja Naeem inspected the Torkham customs house and checked declarations disk, passengers’ Hall, arrival and departure scanners, import gate-in and gate out,
Read more
TORKHAM: Thousands of passengers and trucks carrying fresh fruits,vegetables, and other commodities have crossed the Torkham border on Friday after Pakistan as goodwill gesture reopened border crossing after 10th day of its closure, officials said. Pakistan custom officials said more than two hundred trucks carrying fresh fruits and vegetables who had been waiting in Afghanistan
Read more
LANDIKOTAL: Traders and Local government representatives on Friday arranged a peace walk rally in Landikotal bazaar and urged both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defuse the tension and open Torkham border for trade activities. The rally started from Bacha Khan Chowk and reached to front of Landikotal press club. They were holding placards inscribed with slogans
Read more
TORKHAM: The Torkham border crossing remained closed for a second consecutive day due to tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the construction of a bunker on the Afghan side, officials said on Thursday. An official in Torkham, speaking on condition of anonymity, disclosed that all movement had been suspended for the second day, but no
Read more
TORKHAM: Pak-Afghan border Torkham was closed after the situation went tense, followed by the heavy gun firing between Pakistan and Afghanistan forces over the construction of a bunker on the Afghan side of Torkham border on Wednesday, officials said. An official at Torkham border told The Daily Vendor on the condition of anonymity that Emarat-e-Islami
Read more
TORKHAM: The deadlock final over and Pakistan amd Afghanistan jointly reopened the Torkham border that remained closed for six days, officials on Saturday, Custom official Tamash Khan told The Daily Vendor that after the proper orders from Islamabad they reopened the border after six days of its closure. He said more than five thousands loaded
Read more
PESHAWAR: Federal Board of Revenue Chairman Asim Ahmad on Thursday said that Torkham state of the art dry port was the land mark for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which would contribute a handsome amount to the national economy. Chairman FBR Asim Ahmad was chief guest at ceremony.He was speaking to the ceremony of world customs day
Read more
…the weapons were discovered after a customs appraisement staff stopped a truck at Torkham border LANDIKOTAL: Pakistan Customs at Torkham border foiled a bid to smuggle weapons from Afghanistan, officials said on Monday. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Customs chief collector spokesman Sohail Khan told The Daily Vendor that on the basis of credible information customs appraisement staff
Read more
LANDIKOTAL: An Afghan citizen was killed while few others including a Pakistani paramilitary soldier sustained bullet wounds when an Afghan border police opened gun firing to dispersed the mob gathered on the Torkham border inside Afghanistan,official sources said on Thursday. The sources said that an Afghan border police opened gun firing when dozens of truck
Read more
…Additional collector customs enforcement said they seized foreign currency from a passenger LANDIKOTAL: Customs authorities foiled a bid to smuggle Saudi Riyals and arrested the peddler, officials said on Wednesday. Additional collector customs enforcement Zakir Ahmad said that they stopped and searched a passenger identified as Saadullah and recovered 50,000 Saudi Riyals in his possession.
Read more
…Customs chief said 16 US-made different brands of automatic guns and 15,000 of bullets rounds were recovered LANDIKOTAL: Customs authorities at Torkham border foiled a bid to smuggle a bulk of foreign made arms and Ammunitions from Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Chief collector Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Salim while displaying the seized arms to media
Read more
…The Daily Vendor learnt that the minor fell under the tyres of a heavy truck and died TORKHAM BORDER:(Pakistan): Three people including a child died in three different incidents that took place in Loey Shalmam and Torkham areas of Landikotal tehsil on Friday, Official sources said. Sources said that a nine-year-old Haidar came under the tyres
Read more
…As Afghanistan Govt Bans Child Laborers At Torkham border LANDIKOTAL: In the past few weeks trade with Afghanistan 90 percent increased as Afghan government took steps including banning child laborers who used to work for years as tool to smuggle goods from and to Pakistan via Torkham border, officials said on Monday. Talking to reporters
Read more
‘Four human smugglers operating via Torkham border arrested’ TORKHAM: Federal Investigation Agency and Pakistan customs arrested human smugglers and seized weapons in two different raids at Torkham border, officials said on Saturday. In the first raid, custom official Sadiq Akbar said that a truck(47377-Kabul) loaded with fresh fruits was searched when it entered Pakistan. He
Read more