pakistan customs

Pakistan Customs launches swift consignment clearance system to improve ease of doing business

KARACHI: Pakistan Customs on Monday launched the swift consignment clearance software for improving ease of doing business and trading across the border indices of the country. The system namely ‘WeBOC Global’ was inaugurated by Member Customs Dr Jawwad Uwais Agha at Custom house, Karachi. He introduced the key features of the newly developed ICT system […]

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pakistan customs

FBR sets up directorate to initiate legal action in suspicious transactions, stop currency smuggling

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has established Directorate of Cross Border Currency Movement (CBCM) to stop individual and trade based money laundering and initiate legal action in suspicious transactions. The directorate shall be function under administrative control of the Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation, Customs, a notification said on Thursday. According to its […]

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Pakistan Rupee

Rupee gains 20 paisas in open market on monitoring to prevent money laundering

KARACHI: The Pak Rupee gained 20 paisas against dollar on Saturday amid improved inflows in the open market and tight monitoring of law enforcement agency to prevent money laundering. The buying and selling of dollar was recorded at Rs141.30/Rs141.80 as compared with previous day’s closing of Rs141.50/Rs142.00 in cash ready market. Currency dealers said that […]

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State Bank of Pakistan

Banks may verifying goods for manual import payment

KARACHI: Banks shall be required to verify valuation of goods before approving electronic or manual import payment in order to prevent incidents of money laundering and terror financing. According to draft “Framework for Managing Risks of Trade Based Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing” issued by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) banks shall make […]

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