As the ministry nominated its representative in this regard, the Directorate has conducted joint examination of the consignment imported by Indonesian embassy, which led the recovery of 1080 bottles of whisky. However, the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic Islamabad disowned two consignments imported under diplomatic cargos. Furthermore, both consignments, which were declared as food stuff and cleared from MCC Appraisement (West) Karachi, have been blocked and the Directorate later, recovered around 2,268 bottles of whisky from the said consignments during examination.
Consequent upon recovery, the recovered contraband liquor was seized and the case has been registered. Further investigation is in progress. Meanwhile, Irfan Javeed Director DI&I, Customs, Karachi said the incident report had been forwarded to the ministry of foreign affairs with the request to carry out joint examination of remaining consignments belonging to the embassies of Lebanon and Algeria as identical mis-declaration was also suspected therein. He said that the Directorate was dealing this major trend of smuggling of liquor through embassies with iron hand and taking stiff measures to avert such attempts in future.