Intelligence report says contraband smuggling in goods trains was staged. PHOTO: INP
Some elements within the Indian state organs and other stakeholders are hindering trade between Pakistan and India, an analysis report prepared by a Pakistani intelligence agency revealed.
The two-page report stated that both India and Pakistan are making efforts to normalise their ties by initiating a series of measures both at government and public levels.
However, there is a lack of sincerity on the Indian side and ‘hawkish elements’ in Indian state organs and other stakeholders are not on the same page with their government, it added.
A recent example of this has been the repeated allegations of smuggling of contraband through goods trains from Pakistan to India.
According to the report, as per the existing procedures, it is not possible to smuggle contraband in trains inside Pakistani territory since the wagons are inspected and loaded in the presence of Pakistan Customs and Railways officials. After loading, they are re-inspected and both departments lock the wagons with their own separate seals. Another inspection is carried out at the Wagah railway station.
According to the report, tampering of seals and loading of alleged contraband is manipulated by the Indian mafia supported by agencies between Atari and Amritsar.This fact is further authenticated with the arrest of a rail cargo porter and ASI Ranjit Singh in Amritsar for their involvement in a staged seizure on October 20, 2012.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence booked the ASI in connection with the recovery of 23kg of heroin from a Pakistani goods. Porter Puran Singh was arrested after he tried to tamper with the metal and paper seal of the bogey containing the heroin.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 13th, 2013.
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What has any intelligence agency to do anything about business between two nations? Business is driven by money and profit period. Intelligence agencies preparing ' analytical' reports - can only happen in pakistan.
@Iqtidar: Why you forget that another US official had said that Pakistan is international migraine.
@Fawad: And you are angels?
@ahmed:
Though the quote by "Vin" here was not suitable to the subject, fact is he has merely reproduced excerpts from a Pakistani journalist Dr.Farrukh Saleem who wrote this three years ago, & it is quoted often by some to get some thrills. It is for Pakistanis to decide whether to draw any lessons from the life of Dhiru Ambani & the Reliance Inds. experience. That explanation doesn't alter reality of poverty. And it doesn't dilute the personal vulgarity of the Ambanis; but they are not a unique family in that regard.
@Ali: @Sajid Iqbal: @ahmed:
What Mukesh Ambani wants to do with his money is up to him. The fact is he has oodles of cash, none of you can deny that. The fact also is that his father was a petrol pump attendant. What it means is that anyone can have a rags to riches story in India. For others as the economy expands, surely the benefits will trickle down. . Amusing that all of you come up with reports and toilets every time. Most of these surveys and reports are created to diagnose the ills in current Indian society. Just because there is no such survey for Pakistan does not mean the conditions there are peachy.
Who cares about MFN? Let Pakistan continue to buy Indian goods trans-shipped via Dubai and pay the extra cost. . The whole world uses Non Tariff Barriers which is permissible under WTO. 16 years after being given MFN status by India, Pakistan has broken their own commitments numerous times on granting India MFN due to opposition by its religious right which despite being a minority in parliament obviously wield greater control. This duplicitous nation a few days ago said that India must remove NTBs. Just not worth it dealing with a government when the masters are elsewhere. . Now here comes the proof of the pudding. This is an analyst report prepared by a Pakistani intelligence agency (just how many are there?) and obviously they see some "concerns" and think India is to blame for their reticence.
@vin let me burst your inflated narrow minded biased indian baloon of prosperity: wiki "Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. In 2010, World Bank stated, 32.7% of the total Indian people fall below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day (PPP) while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day.[1] According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 37.2% of Indians live below the country's national poverty line.[2] A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states have more poor people than 26 poorest African nations combined which totals to more than 410 million poor in the poorest African countries.[3][4] The latest UNICEF data shows that one in three malnourished children worldwide are found In India, whilst 42 percent of the nation's children under five years of age are underweight. It also shows that a total of 58 percent of children under five surveyed were stunted. Rohini Mukherjee, of the Naadi foundation-one of the NGO's that published the report-stated India is "doing worse than sub-Saharan Africa,".[6]" I hope selfish Ambanis will do something for their improverish countrymen especially childrenbefore they show generousity to the neighbor to the north. I rest my case.
More and more trade should be encouraged between Pak and India.I think the need of the hour is not more and more rules and restrictions but reducing conditions and regulations . Trade will facilitate peace in the long run.
@ vin its a pity man that those guys can buy everything off the KSE however wont buy more than 50% of their own countrymen toilets
@vin: I don't buy your crap. You may have riches of this caliber but this only shows wealth disparity in India. Your riches may be able to buy whole Pakistani economy but what about the rest of your country? Are they able to afford their daily meal? Only a fool like you can comment about billionaire in a new piece that is by no means associated to them.
Why is the Govt Of Pak. seeking a report on international trade from Intelligence Agencies - aren't there economists at institutes like LUMS which can study the situation and recommend actions to improve them.
Be aware that India trades almost 4 times as much with Bangladesh than it does with Pakistan; trade which like in the case of Pakistan is routed across a land border.
Deceit, lies and treachery are the tools of the Pakistani state. And the fools are not able to make proper use of even these tools.
@Usman, @Fawad
You can prevent this by not allowing this situations to crop up in the first place.
a. Stop all diplomatic relations with India b. Build a fence on your side of the border
That will be beneficial to all.
@vin Then why isn't he helping millions of indians living on less than a dollar a day. And the famous slum-dwellers of Mumbai, his native city.
@Vasan Going by the US Defence Sec, Chuck Hagel's revelation, India would have definitely be financing this problem for Pakistan.
Pakistanis seem to believe in every "THEORY" except hard work and honesty. This is the view written by Pakistani journalist Dr. Farrukh Saleem. Here’s what is happening in India:.
The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.
In November, Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.
Mukesh is now staying in his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean ). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh’s new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance.
According to the report, as per the existing procedures, it is not possible to smuggle contraband in trains inside Pakistani territory since the wagons are inspected and loaded in the presence of Pakistan Customs and Railways officials.
Height of naiveté
Nothing new! Indians are always like that...
Frankly speaking, I am not surprised at all with this attitude. This has been the bane of India since independence
Going by the Afghan spy master's revelation, I guess Pak officials would have asked for money and India would have refused. That must be the story behind this.
I'm not surprised at all..
Pakistan is the culprit for speaking truth.