PAKISTAN
Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) raided and sealed an illegal cigarette manufacturing factory in Buner allegedly run by the family of the vice chairman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Board of Investment (BOI).
The factory had been manufacturing forged cigarettes in Buner district while copying the brands of Pakistan Tobacco Company, Phillip Morris Pakistan, and Khyber Tobacco Company Limited and was said to be causing a loss of INR5.2 million on a daily basis to the national exchequer.