Bugti says ‘no mercy for smugglers’ vows to eliminate terrorism

Caretaker interior minister Sarfaraz Bugti once again said that Indian intelligence agency RAW is involved in terrorism activities in Balochistan. He also said that crackdowns against smuggling have borne fruit in cooperation with provinces. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad alongside Information Minister Murtaza Solangi, Bugti detailed the anti-smuggling operations in the country and said that the economy was suffereing massive losses before the crackdowns began. The interior miniter said that the government had managed to bring down the value of the dollar and was making more efforts to bring it down to its original value. He said that action had been taken against 168 currency smugglers. He said that data on food had been gathered from all provinces and sugar smuggling had been clamped down upon using modern technology. Bugti also said that 10,195 litres of smuggled petrol had been recovered and action would also be taken against the pumps selling them. He added that a crackdown had also been carried out against drugs and 43 metric tonnes of various drus had been confiscated. On the recent terror attacks in Balochistan, Bugti said that evidence had been found of RAW being involved and no extremist activities in the country will be tolerated.