Customs agents delegation felicitates newly appointed Director Transit Trade MCC.

PESHAWAR -- A four-member delegation of custom agents led by President Frontier Customs Agents Association (FCAA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Central Vice President of All Pakistan Customs Agents Association (APCAA) Zia-ul-Haq Shardi on Wednesday called on newly appointed at Directorate of Transit Trade Peshawar, Director of Transit Trade Samiul Haq here at Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Custom House and felicitated him on assuming new responsibilities.

The other members of the delegation included Senior Vice President of the Association Imtiaz Ahmed Ali, General Secretary Mian Wahidshah Bacha.

On this occasion, Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, who is also the Vice President of Pak-Afghan Giant Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI), said that the Director Samiul Haq was well aware of the problems of business community as well as the Afghan transit trade issues of the customs clearing agents and hoped that he would played a key role in solving the Afghan transit trade problems.

He informed the Director about problems being faced in transit trade and said that Torkham Border National Logistics Cell (NLS) is building a terminal equipped with modern facilities at the Torkham Border and there was a lack of space due to which many trucks were parked at the border on both sides.

He said that the most serious problem was that hundreds of empty containers with trucks had been standing in open fields from several days, due to which there had been a shortage of trucks in Karachi, and the fare, which used to be 150,000 from Karachi to Jalalabad, was now about to Rs 4 to 5 lakh.

He mentioned that...