Pakistan Coast Guards recover 6,800 liters Iranian diesel, drugs in smuggling crackdown

During a vehicular searches at Naka Khari check post PCG recovered 3597 kg of blisters and 2593 kg of foreign cloth. Nine hundred and fifty kilograms of hashish recovered from a passenger's bag.

The smugglers wanted to traffic the diesel to different parts of Pakistan," said spokesperson of the PCG.

This is not the first recovery of Iranian smuggled diesel which is easily available in different parts of the country.

In May this year, the standing committee of Pakistan’s Senate was briefed that illegal smuggling of oil from Iran is causing the country’s national exchequer a loss of Rs. 60 billion annually.

Moreover, officials informed the Senate that the sale of diesel has been declined by 1.4 million tons in the last 10 months due to increased smuggling from Iran through the Pak-Iran border and Sea.

In January 2020, police in Karachi thwarted a bid to transport 30,000 liters of smuggled Iranian diesel and arrested two accused.

Last year in March, the Coast Guards recovered a huge cache of 100,000 liters of Iranian Diesel in Uthal area of Balochistan.