QUETTA: Customs Quetta has recovered large quantity of smuggled goods worth Rs60 million from a 10-wheeler Hino truck at Ziarat Cross Check Post.

During the tight monitoring of traffic for preventing transportation of smuggled goods, Customs staff stopped a 10-wheeler Hino truck at Ziarat Cross. Checking of the 10-wheeler Hino truck led to recovery of foreign origin 7.7 tons of areca nut (betel nut), 3.2 tons of Chinese salt, 2.3 tons of tobacco and cigarettes.

The goods were being transported in the garb of coal. The vehicle has also been seized.

Collector Quetta Dr. Fareed ,Additional Collector Moeen Afzal Ali and Deputy Collector Dr Zohaib Sandela appreciated the performance of Superintendent Saleem Agha, Inspector Ahmed Nawaz Zehri and Inspector Bshir Wazir and staff.