1200 containers missing from Customs
Senior Pakistani Customs officials from Karachi and Peshawar are likely to be summoned soon to Islamabad to explain their position on over 1,200 containers of goods imported from abroad, but went missing over the past couple of years before collectors could collect duties and taxes.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has asked for full details to fix the responsibility and to prevent the attached departments of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and those officials listed for having handled these containers from concealing facts, as these officials have made repeated attempts at hiding the facts.
Some of these officials even submitted before an internal inquiry committee that they had not handled the containers, despite the fact that the duty rolls mentioned their names clearly. These senior officers have now been asked to explain why they tried to implicate the lower-grade subordinates like inspectors and customs appraisers, etc whereas it was their responsibility to ensure that information about the missing containers were reported to the high-ups duly and properly.
After all they are our brothers and Customs Administration across the border must be almost same.