609 petrol pumps sealed in Pakistan for selling smuggled oil
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Under the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, 609 petrol pumps have been sealed and about 4.5 million litres of Petrol & Diesel have been seized in the campaign against oil smugglers in the Country.
The campaign against oil smuggling led by the Ministry of Interior is continuing unabated and showing significantly good results.
If the sealed petrol pumps do not show valid documentation within seven days of sealing, these will be confiscated by the State under the Customs Act along with all properties of the owners as it would be deemed that these properties were acquired with smuggling proceeds.
talking about sending messages to hard-liners. the hard-liners only understand the use of force. that is where he got himself into a jam. he either has to use force and use it decisively which will hurt our image with moderates, or he has got to essentially let this go which he seems unwilling to do. putin is rung the show here right? whether syria or iran he has been pulling all the levers for 2 1/2 years, if not more. absolutely. the reality as you mentioned, iran is a critical part of this because it is all about the regional power dynamics. russia uses their position on the u.n. security council to basically dictate, you know, global power at this point because the u.s. is stymied because we keep trying to work through those international organizations. bill: it smells like this is moving toward a u.n. solution again? yeah i mean bill: shades of saddam hussein. assad learned from the king of deception. absolutely. we had 10 years. i used to be involved in the activities t
2001 running similar operations to this, we were dealing with oil smugglers out of iraq. it s always dangerous in a situation like this, ao up in a hostage situation, these things often don t turn out well and while it s a tragedy what we need to think about is how are we going to deal with this for the long haul, how can we help somalia, make it a stable place so we can bring this under control. martha: unfortunately this is the most lucrative for the young somalis to make a living and it s been working well for them. something like 600 people being held right now. why, though? once your hostages are gone, you ve lost your leverage, right? why would they have killed these people? well, it s true, but you know, it s interesting to listen to some of the interviews and to some of the discussions that these pirates have had. they look at this as a legitimate line of work, so for the same reason that you basically can t negotiate with terrorists because you encourage future additional te