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Customs officials in Karachi foiled a smuggling bid and recovered electronic items worth Rs.300 mln from a godown in Karachi’s SITE Area. Watch this report.

Customs have seized a shipment of hundreds of donkey hides the export of which was banned by the government last month. The question is: Where did the meat of these 1200 donkeys go?…Watch this report to find out. The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC)  of the Cabinet had banned export of donkey hides till such time…

KARACHI: Senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Farooq Sattar, claimed on Friday that law-enforcing personnel have seized at least 10,000 hides collected by his party workers in Karachi, Samaa reported. “Despite the fact that we have signed a code of conduct and have been given permission in written, there are reports of arrests…

KARACHI: Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh police raided an office of E-Electric and recovered huge cache of firearms, SAMAA reported on Friday. According to police, the raid was launched on identification of a target killer in custody with the police. The target killer hails from a religious party. The firearms retrieved from the office…

COPENHAGEN/LONDON/NEW YORK: Iran's foreign minister told an audience in New York City on Wednesday that Tehran respects freedom of navigation in the Gulf, a day after Iranian patrol boats seized a Danish container ship in one of the world's busiest oil shipping lanes. “The Persian Gulf is our lifeline … We will respect international navigation,” Foreign…

ZHOB: A suspected terrorist blew himself up during a search operation that led to the recovery of a huge dump of explosives in Sabakzai area of Zhob, a town in the restive southwestern Balochistan province, which is facing a tribal insurgency, sectarian violence and Taliban attacks, Samaa reported. “At least 400 kilograms of high-grade explosives,…

ZHOB: Two militants blew themselves up when FC and secret agencies jointly carried out raid near Sabakzai Dam in Zhob, sources said. According to the sources, a huge cache of arms were also seized in the raid. 800 locally made bombs, 50 land mines, 200 kilograms of explosive material, hand grenades and Kalashnikovs were recovered…

PESHAWAR: Police claimed to have seized a weapons-laden vehicle in Budh Bher on outskirts of Peshawar on Friday. According to police, 20 Kalashnikovs, 20 pistols and 30 thousand cartridges were recovered from the vehicle. Police said that they have also arrested a driver of the vehicle. Interrogation with the accused has been kicked off. -Samaa

ISLAMABAD: A mysterious metal box containing 9,000 detonators has been seized in Kharkhano Market in Peshawar Saturday, police said. According to police, they raided Kharkhano Market in Peshawar on Saturday and recovered a mysterious metal box containing 9,000 detonators. The detonators were kept hidden in the box, police said. -Samaa

LOS ANGELES: US customs inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized a shipment of several dozen live giant African snails, considered a delicacy in Nigeria but also voracious pests that can eat paint and stucco off houses, officials said on Monday. Weighing nearly 2 pounds (0.9 kg) each, including their shells, and measuring about 6…

KIEV/MOSCOW: Armed separatists took control of a city in eastern Ukraine on Saturday and Kiev prepared troops to tackle what it called an “act of aggression by Russia”, pushing the conflict between the neighbors into a dangerous new phase. Pro-Russian activists carrying automatic weapons seized government buildings in Slaviansk, a town about 150 km (90…

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of States John Kerry on Sunday opponents of Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovich had failed to abide by a peace deal they signed on Friday and had seized power, the ministry said.In their second telephone conversation in two days, Lavrov told Kerry “the most important thing now is…

This report shows us miserable condition of over 150 different vehicles in Attock police custody. Carelessness and theft of parts have turned these costly vehicles into scrap now.

NEW DELHI: Nokia has asked the Delhi High Court to help release its Indian factory after its seizure by the local tax authorities, the Finnish firm said on Thursday as it seeks to resolve the tax dispute ahead of the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft.Nokia said it did not expect the dispute…

TRIPOLI: Former rebel gunmen freed Libya's prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture by U.S. forces at the weekend of a Libyan al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli, officials said.A Reuters journalist at the scene said protesters had opened fire at the building where Ali Zeidan was being…

DUBAI: Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is in “good health and will be treated well as a Libyan citizen,” and is being held at the Interior Ministry's anti-crime department, an official with the department told the state news agency.Zeidan was seized on Thursday by former rebels who blamed him for the government's role in the…

TRIPOLI: A group of former Libyan rebels said it seized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a Tripoli hotel on Thursday because of his government's role in the US capture of a top al Qaeda suspect in the Libyan capital.”His arrest comes after the statement by John Kerry about the capture of Abu Anas al-Liby, after…

Staff ReportKARACHI: A truck loaded with automatic weapons and drugs was seized during a raid in Karachi on Monday, SAMAA reported.According to Rangers spokesman, Pakistan Rangers Sindh conducted a raid on the hideout of Peoples Amn Committee’s Darvesh near Old Sabzi Mandi and recovered a truck which contained automatic weapons and huge quantity of narcotics…

COLON, Panama: Panamanian investigators unloading the cargo of a seized North Korean ship carrying arms from Cuba under sacks of brown sugar on Tuesday found 12 engines for MiG-21 fighter jets and five military vehicles that officials said resembled missile control centres.Investigators earlier this month had found two MiG-21 fighter jets and two missile radar…

Staff ReportISLAMABAD: The customs officials have seized smuggled gold worth Rs. 100 million at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport, SAMAA report.According to the customs officials, one smuggler, Waqas, brought 23.5 kilograms of gold from Dubai through Shaheen Airline’s Flight NL-224 but he was captured immediately after reaching at Islamabad airport.This 23.5 kilograms’ gold have 100…