Tariq Road shopkeepers booked for attack on Customs officials

Rangers, Customs recover smuggled goods in Yousuf Goth raid

KARACHI:

The Sindh Rangers and Customs intelligence have recovered smuggled goods valued at millions of rupees during a raid on secret warehouses in Yousuf Goth of Baldia Town.

A team of the Rangers and the Customs Intelligence jointly conducted the raid on the basis of a tip-off. A huge quantity of illicit goods, including smuggled cloth, PVC plastic, Iranian ceramic tiles, crockery, cigarettes, dry milk, thermopol sheets, edible oil, soap, and various food items, were recovered from the warehouses in Yousuf Goth.

The contraband were handed over to Customs authorities and transported in 21 trucks for further legal actions. Tariq Road raid Meanwhile, a case has been registered in connection with an attack on the Customs team at a shopping centre on Tariq Road. More than 70 suspects, including 23 by name, have been nominated in the FIR.

Law enforcement authorities are conducting raids to apprehend the suspects. The incident occurred on October 14, when the suspects attacked Customs officers with sticks and gunfire within the Tariq Road shopping centre.

The case registered at the Firozabad police station also includes terrorism charges. According to the complainant, Customs officials received a tipoff on Oct 13 regarding the presence of smuggled cloth and other contraband goods stored within the warehouses of the Dubai Shopping Centre on Tariq Road.

In response to this information, Director Saud Hasan Khan formed a team under his leadership, comprising intelligence officers Mohammad Nadeem, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Jahanzeb Khan, Azhar Azim, and Aamir Rafiq, along with customs constables Rashid Ali, Ghulam Akbar, Shavez, Ayaz, and other personnel.

At 1:15pm, as they entered the shopping centre’s warehouse to locate the smuggled goods, a group of men, later identified by name, along with approximately 170 others, armed with sticks, opened fire and initiated an attack with the intent to disrupt the work of government employees.