Computerising data: ‘Non-customs paid vehicles a security risk’
G-B assembly to debate the issue find permanent solution.
GILGIT:
The computerisation of data on non-customs paid (NCP) vehicles is under way in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). So far records of 8,000 vehicles have been computerised; sources told The Express Tribune on Friday.
“The data of all vehicles will be computerised soon. Once completed, it will be submitted to chief secretary for further action,” official sources in the Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department said.
The sources said that the government will have consolidated figure of how many NCP vehicles are presently in G-B.
The officials roughly estimated that over 13,000 NCP vehicles are plying in Gilgit-Baltistan, mostly in Gilgit followed by Skardu.
Local authorities banned the entry of new NCP vehicles into the region recently. The NCP vehicles were brought to the region illegally, mostly from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Superintendent of Police Sultan Azam said on Friday that NCP vehicles posed a threat to law and order in the region, which shares borders with K-P’s Kohistan and Malakand divisions.
“These vehicles can easily be used in criminal activities due to lack of documents and records,” he said.
In December, the Supreme Appellate Court’s Chief Justice Nawaz Ali Khan had also asked the G-B government to devise a policy on NCP vehicles as they pose security threat.
Sources in the E&T added that once data on NCP vehicles has been collected, the G-B Legislative Assembly will also debate a permanent solution to the problem. “It is likely that the assembly will legislate on this issue to legalise the NCP vehicles.”
In January G-B Finance Minister Mohammad Ali Akhtar said the issue of NCP vehicles would be discussed in the assembly.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2011.
The computerisation of data on non-customs paid (NCP) vehicles is under way in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). So far records of 8,000 vehicles have been computerised; sources told The Express Tribune on Friday.
“The data of all vehicles will be computerised soon. Once completed, it will be submitted to chief secretary for further action,” official sources in the Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department said.
The sources said that the government will have consolidated figure of how many NCP vehicles are presently in G-B.
The officials roughly estimated that over 13,000 NCP vehicles are plying in Gilgit-Baltistan, mostly in Gilgit followed by Skardu.
Local authorities banned the entry of new NCP vehicles into the region recently. The NCP vehicles were brought to the region illegally, mostly from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Superintendent of Police Sultan Azam said on Friday that NCP vehicles posed a threat to law and order in the region, which shares borders with K-P’s Kohistan and Malakand divisions.
“These vehicles can easily be used in criminal activities due to lack of documents and records,” he said.
In December, the Supreme Appellate Court’s Chief Justice Nawaz Ali Khan had also asked the G-B government to devise a policy on NCP vehicles as they pose security threat.
Sources in the E&T added that once data on NCP vehicles has been collected, the G-B Legislative Assembly will also debate a permanent solution to the problem. “It is likely that the assembly will legislate on this issue to legalise the NCP vehicles.”
In January G-B Finance Minister Mohammad Ali Akhtar said the issue of NCP vehicles would be discussed in the assembly.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2011.