Excise dept launches vehicle checking campaign.

KARACHI -- As many as 7,043 vehicles have been checked during the first two days of the road checking campaign of the excise department against tax defaulting vehicles under the direction of Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawla.

During the campaign so far 250 vehicles were seized for various reasons. Documents of 450 vehicles were confiscated and the tax and penalty amounted to Rs4.4 million. According to the details, 1999 vehicles were checked in Karachi, 1884 vehicles in Hyderabad, 1115 in Sukkur, 987 in Larkana, 680 in Mirpurkhas and 378 vehicles in Shaheed Benazirabad.

For various reasons, papers of 180 vehicles in Karachi, 105 in Hyderabad, 31 in Sukkur...