A local refinery official claimed on Thursday that 7,000 to 8,000 metric tons (approx. 8 million liters) of high-speed diesel (HSD) is being smuggled into Pakistan from Iran on a daily basis.
Smuggled Iranian HSD has devastated domestic refineries, which have a combined HSD production capacity of about 15,000 metric tons per day. According to Attock Refinery Limited CEO Adil Khattak, this issue is also costing the government billions of rupees in revenue.
Khattak told The News that the government either does not realize the gravity of the situation or is ignoring it due to a lack of foreign exchange for legal imports of deficit products.
The smuggling of Iranian petroleum products has been going on for years, but never at this scale. This issue can lead to a permanent shutdown of local refineries, Khattak warned.
He further stated that the refinery has reduced its output to 25% due to smuggled HSD.
Khattak added:
What is even more alarming is that the emboldened smuggler mafia, with no fear of any reprisal, is offering supply of smuggled products to OMCs (oil marketing companies) on discounted rates minus the petroleum development levy (PDL).
Khattak has requested the relevant authorities to have a look at the issue and resolve it on an urgent basis.
The Iranian petroleum products are being smuggled under the garb of legally imported hydrocarbons consignments from Iran. The government may take action as laboratories staff are declaring the Iranian petroleum products as Hydrocarbon solvents and are helping hand of smugglers to find there way to cover the Iranian petroleum products.
It’s a good business. It should not be stopped. We don’t have dollars for legal imports so we should encourage this illegal trade
Where is moral values? Every is dojng bad with Pakistan so yeah we should also start doing bad, han farak nai parta na. Come on bro.
Morals, with an empty belly, dont work.
After the offer and b4 this offer I don’t understand still where that 8000 barral is going.where it’s consuming every day.who is getting richer every day
All government agencies are getting rich ,only + point is local getting business, otherwise give alternate business opportunities to them. If not ?
It is being snuggled under the very nose of our army and FC. So the generals must be getting rich.
Sb ko pta hy k kon smuggle kr rha per naam nahi le ga koi na unko roke ga
We need another 2 million inductions in forces to curb this smuggling from borders and additional 5 million to monitor these 2 million
No harm in doing this for the country. You can not afford dollars let private sector do business. Your ministries are failure Your chance of survival is on stack. Utterly failure 💔 😪
Iran se directly pakistani custom se guzr k ata h sab punjab walo k hota hai bare bare oil tankr aty hain Pakistan army k hoty hain ziyadatr investment.. wahn k local baloch bichre gallon mai zalil ho khowar o k laty hain un ko pakistani laity hain bus army walo ka or pu jab walo ko chalo jata h .. pir b khety hain baloch ghaddar hain
i m with you argee 100
Iran say smuggle ho ker petrol punjab aata hai? WOW hum nay tu kabhi nahi mila punjab mein.
lekan aata. urea and suger zaroor jati hai punjab say smuggle ho ker.
Iss ka faeida kisi awam ko nahi mafia ko ho raha hai. Allah inko poochhey