PESHAWAR: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials have foiled a bid to smuggle gold and mobile phones worth millions from Peshawar’s Bacha Khan International Airport on Wednesday.
According to CAA officials, during a routine inspection by an airport officer found the mobile phones from the toilet of the lounge.
The official’s recovered 10 mobile phones hidden inside the toilet of the international arrival lounge, whereas, they also found gold nuggets inside the mobile phones. Sources from CAA said 20-tola gold was also recovered from the mobile phones.
The staffer immediately submitted the mobile phones to the duty terminal officer (DTM) which later summoned the Customs personnel. Customs officers seized the alleged smuggled items and started the search for the passengers, sources added.
Earlier, the Airports Security Force (ASF) had foiled the bid to smuggle narcotics from Bacha Khan International Airport.
ASF officials had recovered a huge quantity of ice weighing more than two-kilogram hidden in secret portions of a trolley bag of a passenger.
The security officials on suspicions had decided for a manual search of the bag of the passenger who was going to depart for Bahrain via a foreign airline.
