From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1948: Seventy-five years ago: Smugglers go unchecked.

LARGE quantities of contraband foodgrains drift nightly along the Pakistan coast in [boats] to Cutch and other neighbouring Indian ports under the cover of darkness and nobody seems able to stop ... the activities of the smugglers. The Pakistan Food Minister recently admitted that large scale smuggling was going on, but neither the Central nor the Provincial Government seems to be doing anything about it.

The Customs officers plead that their resources are too inadequate to tackle the job. ...Numerous are the smuggling points and varied are the smugglers' devices and when it comes to facing the Custom-men they have - literally -...