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Collectorate of Customs Lahore
was established on 15-07-1947.
Initially the jurisdiction of
Collectorate of Central Excise
and Land Customs extended over
to the provinces of Punjab &
NWFP. In the year 1973 the areas
of NWFP & Punjab (upto Jehlum)
were allocated to the newly
created Collectorate of Central
Excise and Land Customs,
Peshawar. The jurisdiction of
Lahore Collectorate was
restricted to the province of
the Punjab excluding Rawalpindi
Division.
The Collectorate of Central
Excise & Land Customs was
divided into two Collectorate in
the year 1986 i.e. Collectorate
of Customs Lahore & Collectorate
of Central Excise Lahore. Both
had the jurisdiction over the
Punjab excluding Rawalpindi
Division.
In the year 1990 another
Collectorate was created by
bifurcating the Collectorate of
Customs Lahore into two
Collectorates namely,
Collectorate of Customs, Lahore
and Collectorate of Customs
Multan. The jurisdiction of
Collectorate of Customs Lahore
was then restricted to Lahore
and Gujranwala Administrative
Divisions. In 1994 the
Collectorate of Customs Lahore
was further divided into two
Collectorates namely
Collectorate of Customs Lahore
having jurisdiction over Lahore
division and Collectorate of
Customs Gujranwala. Presently
this Collectorate controls areas
in the Administrative division
of Lahore only.
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Lahore Dryport was established
on 7/1973. It was declared as
custom port vide SRO1250(I)/73
dated 24th August, 1973.
Originally, Dryport Moghalpura
Lahore was declared as Land
Customs Station and the goods
imported into and exported from
this port were mainly for India
and Pakistan. In other words it
was Land Customs Station for
commercial goods imported from
India and exported to India.
Subsequently with development of
trade and Industry and as a
result of closure of trade with
India after 1965 war and in view
of difficulties faced by the
local traders of Punjab, the
Land Customs Station of
Moghalpura Lahore was designated
as Drydock i.e. inland port for
importation and exportation of
goods brought through the sea
routes and it was a port created
with transhipment facilities.
Initially transhipment was
carried out only by Railway but
subsequently this facility was
extended to National Logistic
Cell of Pakistan Army and
further to private bonded
carriers. The custodian of the
imported and exported goods is
Pakistan Railways.
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Customs Station at Railway
Station Lahore is working since
March, 1948. Originally it
consisted of two parts i.e.
Plate form No.1 and T-10. The
former earlier was meant for
traffic passengers with slight
importation of commercial goods
mainly fresh and perishable
commodities and T-10 was
exclusively cargo station for
importation and exportation of
goods to India. Apart from this
Platform No.5 was specified for
Customs in connection with
exports. However the passenger
traffic from Platform No.1 was
discontinued from May 1996 when
Wagha Railway Station was
notified an independent Station
for traffic. Railway station was
renotified as custom station
vide SRO 310(I)/96 dated 2nd
May, 1996. The custodian of the
imported and exported goods is
Pakistan Railways.
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Railway station wagha was
declared as Customs station for
passenger station vide
Notification SRO No. 310(I)/96
dated 22nd May, 1996 .
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This is in existence since 1947
for the passenger traffic
travelling by road and also it
is transit station for fresh
fruit exported to India from
Afghanistan. It was renotified
as Custom station vide
Notification No. SRO 310(I)/96
dated 22nd May, 1996.
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AFU was established with the
creation of Collectorate of
Central Excise & Land Custom
Lahore. It was renotified as
Customs Airport vide
notification No. SRO 101(I)/83
dated 12-02-1983 the Custom
formalities which are mainly
performed are related to
passenger traffic, for treatment
of the goods imported into and
exported from Pakistan with the
division of AFU (Import and
export un accompanied baggage
etc.
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The formation of Postal
Appraising Department was
formally declared an independent
unit in March, 1965. Prior to
this, it was a branch of the GPO
operating under the formation of
Chief Post Master, Subsequently
in the year 1982, the postal
department upgraded its standard
by way of declaring the post of
Superintendent of the Postal
Department to Grade-17 as
against earlier Grade-16. The
formation of the office of the
Superintendent Foreign Post was
re-designated as office of the
Deputy Controller Foreign Post,
Lahore in the year 1993.
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The Dryport is situated at
Multan Road adjacent to Thokar
Niaz Baig Lahore and was
declared Customs port vide
Notification No. SRO 1128(I)/88
dated 12th December, 1988. The
goods transported by the
National Logistic Cell, imported
or exported are dealt with at
CFS. The Custodian of the
imported and exported goods is
National Logistic Cell Pakistan
Army.
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