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1. Introduction
- Smuggling is illegal or export of goods
- Illegal transportation of goods across the frontiers
2. Frontiers of Pakistan
- Smuggling across these frontiers
- Illegal supply of Indian goods
3. Smuggling is harming the economy of Pakistan
- Smuggling across Indo-Pak borders
- Smuggling across Pak-Afghan border
4. How to control smuggling
- Need to understand mechanism of smuggling
- Need to crush down the cruel hoarders
5. Conclusion
ESSAY:
Smuggling means conveying of goods clandestinely into or out of a country, especially in order to avoid payment of customs duties or in contravention of legal prohibition.
Goods are transported across the frontiers of Pakistan without following the formal procedures set by the government. The type of illegal import and export deprive our government of revenue in the form of import and export duties and customs duties and taxes. Electronic goods, food, grains, weapons, drugs and many other items are smuggled in and out of Pakistan causing huge losses to the economy of the country.
Pakistan has common frontiers with India, Iran and Afghanistan. There have been reports of smuggling across all these borders. However, smuggling across the borders of Afghanistan and India has been rampant during the last two or three decades. Pakistan government has been putting efforts to check this smuggling by various methods but has failed to check smuggling.
Contraband Indian goods eventually find their way in Pakistani markets. Goods continuously smuggled from India to Pakistan include films, pan leaves, cloth, confectionary and occasionally vegetables. The main factors motivating this type of smuggling are low prices of Indian goods and the demand of Indian products in Pakistani markets.
A price hike in India attracts Pakistani goods which result in an escalation smuggling of Pakistani goods from Pakistan. Such a situation demands intensified checks on smuggling and strict border controls. Smuggling of contraband good to and from India must be controlled because it causes huge losses to Pakistani and Indian exchequers. Governments of Pakistan and India need to make coordinated efforts in order to make possible the prevention of smuggling.
From Afghanistan, most commonly smuggled items are those which reach Afghanistan from Central Asian state, Russia and Europe. These goods include electronic items, clothes, cosmetics, etc. But the most dangerous goods that are smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan are the drugs and weapons. As a matter of fact, since the time of Afghan-Russian war, we have faced a culture of drugs and weapons in Pakistan.
In order to check smuggling, we need to understand the mechanism of smuggling. We need to keep strong checks on hoarding during the high seasons. For example, quite recently, there has been a trend of hoarding wheat grains and then smuggling it to India and Afghanistan. The reason behind the smuggling of wheat is its higher price in both India and Afghanistan. Smuggler purchased wheat at large scales and hoarded it. As a result, there was observed a shortage of wheat in the local market and demand as well as price of the wheat rose to unprecedented heights. Further, there was high demand of wheat in India and Afghanistan. The cruel hoarders sold out their hoarded wheat at extremely high prices in Pakistan but also smuggled it to India and Afghanistan. Pakistani public faced a severe shortage of flour and the government had to import wheat from Europe, Australia and United States at very high prices. In the end, it was the Pakistani public who had to pay ever highest prices for flour.
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