New battalions being raised to curb smuggling

Heavy vehicles head toward Afghanistan via Ghulam Khan border in North Waziristan tribal district. Following a ban slashed by the Peshawar High Court on sacrificial animals’ export to Afghanistan, authorities in tribal areas intensified efforts to control illegal smuggling of cattle ahead of Eid-ul-Adha to avoid artificial inflation in local market on Jan 31, 2019. (File photo AN)

November 18: The government has decided to raise a set of highly technically equ­ipped battalions of paramilitary forces and customs under a multi-billion-rupee multi-pronged Border Moni­to­ring Initiative (BMI) to ch­eck cross-border smugg­ling, causing significant loss­es to the national economy.

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