KARACHI: MCC Appraisement West has lodged an FIR against directors of M/s Iqra International for attempting to clear fireworks mis-declaring the same as tiles imported from China.
According to details, M/s Iqra International imported a consignments declared to be tiles from China. They filed a TP for transshipment of goods from Karachi to Islamabad dry port. Based on information passed by Collector Dr. Fareed Iqbal Qureshi, Deputy Collector R&D Rana Aftab advised Principal Appraiser Abdul Qayyum and Appraising Officers Mohammad Ahmed, Shahid Dasti, Azhar Abbad and Javed Khalid to examine the consignment, which resulted in recovery of huge quantity of fireworks.
Import of fireworks is pyrotechnic articles is not permissible to import in terms of Import Policy Order, 2016 and import of fireworks fall within the purview of smuggling.
The FIR is lodged and investigations are underway.