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The Pakistani missile also uses WS$51200 ‘Transporter Erector Launcher’, which is manufactured in China by the Wanshan Special Vehicle.
Proliferation experts argued that the auto-clave seized at Kandla was meant for similar missile programmes.
The recently released report titled the “Smuggling In India Report 2019-20” by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) revealed that the Customs and domain experts recently carried out two crucial seizures of items possibly linked to missiles. The first seizure was of a consignment of chemical, which was possibly a dual-use chemical the one that could be used as a propellant in missiles.
The second seizure was a more significant one, as an auto-clave was seized at Kandla port that was routed towards Pakistan s Port Qasim. The autoclave was seized from a Chinese ship named Dai Cui Yun, carried a Hong Kong flag and had left Jiangyin port on Yangtze River in Jiangsu province of China bound for Pakistan s Port Qasim.