Customs day in Pakistan – Villagers run away with contraband
IN Pakistan, Customs Day is celebrated by blazing narcotics for a media photo session instead of arranging any worthwhile activity to actually promote customs cooperation with other countries. This year customs trucks arrived at the vast scattered ground of Neelam Point, located just on the edges of Arabian Sea, carrying bottles of foreign liquor, huge bags filled with heroin and betel nuts and other contrabands. As the Customs officers unloaded the contraband and set it on fire and a bulldozer started crushing the liquor bottles, a large number of villagers rushed to the site and started lifting the partly damaged bags.
The stunned Customs officers fired in the air to disperse the looting mob.
The Customs department in Pakistan celebrates the day every year by setting narcotics on fire. The Pakistan Customs this year has set ablaze 2,700 bottles of foreign liquor, 85-kg of heroin, 4,000 packets of betel nets and 2,000 cans of imported beer.
Cheers! And a Happy Customs Day.