{"id":60598,"date":"2024-12-28T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T06:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=60598"},"modified":"2024-12-28T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T06:47:48","slug":"customs-seizes-iphones-worth-rs11-5-million-at-lahore-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/customs-seizes-iphones-worth-rs11-5-million-at-lahore-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs seizes iPhones worth Rs11.5 million at Lahore Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Customs officials on Friday thwarted a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/human-smuggling-bid-involving-indian-agent-foiled-at-karachi-airport\/\">smuggling bid<\/a> at Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore, seizing dozens of iPhones and arresting an individual.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, a raid was conducted on a tip to apprehend an individual named Umar Farooq, who arrived from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>Customs spokesperson said that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/robbers-make-off-with-35-iphones-worth-rs-6-million-in-karachi\/\">iPhones<\/a> worth Rs11.5 million were seized during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, a\u00a0Pakistan International Airlines\u00a0(PIA) staffer, identified as Faisal Majeed, was caught\u00a0smuggling 16 expensive cell phones from Canada when he arrived at Islamabad airport on flight PK-782.<\/p>\n<p>Customs officials\u00a0found the phones wrapped around his body during a routine check. As a result, Majeed received a show-cause notice, requiring him to respond within three days.<\/p>\n<p>In another raid in October, customs officials recovered valuable mobile phones worth millions of rupees from PIA air hostesses and two passengers at Lahore airport.<\/p>\n<p>Customs officials have revealed that PIA air hostess Nadia Batool tried to smuggle 30\u00a0iPhones\u00a0worth over Rs 11.2 million, hidden in various parts of her body and luggage.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, mobile phones worth Rs 55 lakh were recovered hidden in the luggage of passenger Muhammad Arshad and his wife Fariha Amin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Customs officials on Friday thwarted a smuggling bid at Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore, seizing dozens of iPhones and arresting an individual. According to the official, a raid was conducted on a tip to apprehend an individual named Umar Farooq, who arrived from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Customs spokesperson said that iPhones worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25231,25230],"class_list":["post-60598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-allama-iqbal-international-airport-lahore","tag-iphones-smuggling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60610,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60598\/revisions\/60610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}