Airport security checks?
Karachi security officials at Jinnah International perhaps were feeling too lazy after all the fasting and let a passenger smuggle 1000 grams worth of heroin capsules. Fortunately (or unfortunately) the passenger, whose nationality has not been revealed, was caught carrying 130,000 dollars worth of dope and was subjected to an X-Ray examination at the Dubai Airport.
The passenger initially refused and later confessed that he was carrying them inside his body, in his intestines. Jinnah International Customs Officials really need to get their act together, Ramadan or no Ramadan!
what customs security check has to do with ramazan,just wondering….
why do we link each and everything/incident with religion???
Agreed it has to do nothing with Ramadan, if the security officers are lazy they’ll be lazy during Ramadan also, and plz dont give a chance to ppl like Balma and Alam (who is most probably one guy with two different nicks) to badmouth against fasting.
Karachi_Toronto_Pittsburg:
I don’t remember ‘badmouthing’ fasting ever!
Badmouthing Mullas and ridculing people who think it is Ramadan and not Ramazan is not bad mouthing fasting.
Henna P:
Hudoor-e-vaalaa, this is not Dubai Metroblog. It is Ramzaan, and not Ramadan. Kyaa daroori hae kay her vaqt Ramadan likhaa jaae?
Yeh hum Urdu likhnay-paRhnay vaalo’n kee sehet kay liya mudir hae.
Meraa dameer yeh gavaarah nahi’n kartaa key har vaqt Ramadan kahaa jaae :-)
Don’t propogate Arabic accents on KMB. Please.
Allah-an-khwasta, logo’n kee Urdu kharab ho saktee hae.
I meant Allah-na-khwaastah
Custom Officials the same one I guess who would look other way if given right amount of Bakshish. I bet they were part of it. Now since cat is out of the bag now what top officials do to put their subordinates act together.
@Balma,
If you dont like to write Ramadan then you should not even write Ramazan, you should write like ‘Ramzan’ as their is no zabar on top of Zuwaat in urdu, or in other words their is no alif after zuwat, anyway whatever you write doesnt really matter it matters how much you respect this month of Ramadan yah Ramadan.
phir shuro hogaye tum log. grow up people
Uncle Uncle, yeh mae nay nahi’n, Karachi_toronto-Pittsburg nay shroo kyaa thaa
I want to know the national estimates in Dollars that we lose in Ramzan. Everybody thinks kaam chori and haram khori (two Ramzaan symptoms) become his/her national and religous rights in this month.
@KhiTorPit
Yes, u r damned right. This is another demo of the two symptoms in Ramzan
And dont confuse me with Balma. I am like a Molana Fazlur Rehamn compared with him :D
awww…
ASF, ANTI NARCOTICS, CUSTOMS, IB, ISI, SPIDER GROUP, ATF they all let him GO.
Roza or no Roza – Jis kai mumh ko haram lagi hoti hai woh sirf haram sai khush rehta hai…… Ramzan or Shawaal…. thats all in the mindset
EID Ka Khurcha mil gaya –
flight is off …..
send sms to contact in dubai customs….
guy got randomly picked :) – OUR cash is safe,
why we are so innocent on this BLOG ?
@ ..!..
because religion is what every can pimp and make money outta it…. be it whoever
Balma is a “him” — I always thought it was a ‘her’ — the same sounds female — maybe coz it rhymes with Salma
Balma is a “him”?!?!?! — I always thought it was a ‘her’ — the same sounds female — maybe coz it rhymes with Salma
Am I the only one who thinks this wouldnt be normally picked up. The drugs were in his intestine. That wouldnt be detectable with normal equiptment.
Some middlle eastern coutries use dogs to sniff these things out. In Pakistan we dont normally do that untill we suspect something or maybe on a random basis. This is policy.
so to blame customs for this is unfair. Personally I dont care about them but what is right is right. Its not their fault.
:/
whose nationality has not been revealed
maybe he was ONE of the KMB authors who are always eager to promote dru g and alco holic stuff on public forums? *grin*
@Concerned – Not a single gram moves across Pakistan without the knowledge of KINGPINS of trade. That includes the GOVT Officials as well.
every african look alike dark skin no matter which passport he is carrying is screened & X-rayed at Karachi airport, even the shedi baloch of Balochistan going for overseas job are x-rayed. Thats a SOP of ANF & Customs at Jinnah Terminal.
Against every 50 grams ‘exported’ through MULES (read it as air passengers) there are 9 stake holders of the X%age of total value for “Allowance of safe passage”.
2006 onwards – against every 1 KG confiscated, there is 50 KGs allowance by AIR.
Seashipments it is a completely different scenario.
Live & Let Die – Bond Movie you need to see it again.
Read the book published in 1998 – The White Gold of Taliban. Google the book you may find it in PDF format hosted somewhere.
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@ Adnan .. thats very mischievious of you, I can see chains losing, as ramzan saying Bye to us… :D ;P
Hate to bad mouth my own people but only if this may do any good, I should take this opportunity to bring these observations in the knowledge of responsible people.(btw who is responsible ? a third grader?)
After being to so many airports in 2005 here comes the karachi airport. What the hell! What happened?
No good customer service, not impressive uniforms,
no confidence in communication, no information booths, not many shops etc., etc.,am I belittling my city?
I mean airport is your first impression.
Some cities in the world have better bus stations
Hello!!! Is anybody listening
Sorry guys I had to get this out of my chest :) phew!!
shamsi, what’s mischievous? smuggling or promoting on forums? :>
actually that was a lighter note nothing else =)
Shahid-un-Nissa:
I think Karachi airport is pretty cool. One problem is that there aren’t too many flights coming to Karachi which dictates shops etc at the airport.
I don’t know if you remember the old terminal 2. It was really nasty.
I also remember the original airport building which I think was also pretty nice.
Read this and have a good laugh on the stupidity of pakis.
It is really funny and gives tremendous insight at to the maturity of ordinary pakis.
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Amidst political, cultural and religious turmoil that exists between
East and West, there is a dire need to create harmony and consensus on
controversial issues by think tanks on both sides. Instead, a virtual
war is on. Take, for example, a recently released computer game called
“Lord Lussi vs King Jabbar”. The main theme of the game is the crusade
between Muslims and Christians.
The Muslim Caliph Jabbar is referred to as ‘jackal’ while the
Christian King Lussi is called the ‘saviour’. The humiliation of the
Muslim civilization does not end here. The Muslim Caliph calls for
Jihad time and again which he loses every time. Jihad is done through
suicide attacks against innocent civilians. The game ends with a
defeat of the Muslims. -DR AZHAR MUKHTAR SINDHU, Bhawalpur, via e-
mail, September 15.
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/oct-2007/11/letters5.php
Hmm! Replying to the topic!
What do you suppose the custom officials should do ??? X ray every individual ?!?!:O!!!
@Syed Johny
>>What do you suppose the custom officials should do ??? X ray every individual ?!?!:O!!!
Here is what I suggest: whenever they a person with one Muslim name and the other non-muslim, they should do a cavity search :)
See, I don’t like confusion !
Very Important and Dangerous Cautions for Present Ummah in Pakistan: Please break that Zakat lockers, satan reside in those lockers which is locked on Zakat boxes in Masjid (Mosques) and every where in poor regions, Allah want those Zakat boxes should be open for all humanity feel free and Allah always watching us who is needy and who is banking for nuffs, Zakat (Donation or charity) is for Allah not for nuffs or ego.
Donation or charity is the key for the peace in the world and fair charity only possible from this way make the box and put it on your door out side home or make a big charity box put it on your main street corners and daily put some money or any thing you better know in your region needy poor peoples they can pickup from that boxes this is the way you can help hungers in the world if every one do like this Allah will accept your charity and also Allah knows who took that charity doesn’t matter you also poor but spare it some for donate to other poor peoples, make your self new environment take care of each others Allah give you more Allah always watching you …
This is only one key bring the revolution in the world and this message came to me from Allah and Allah want equally share with your brothers what you have for your life facilities.. like one tree roots not bothers his branches who gave the fruits or not, roots not differentiate and equally distribute the food to all branches same thing branches not differentiate which root is good for his and they distribute his all energy food equally to all roots and its called complete strong tree same thing you all humans need to favor each others with charity and donations.
Your community charity not reach to needy persons it always filtered by satan so please don’t considers your charity organizations linked with hungers and needy peoples… Please make decisions your self other then no difference between animals and you…
With this kind of charity or donations your homes will be get special mercy from Allah and Allah protect those houses… Please start today if you live in poor regions in your countries…
Please translate and populate into your voice… Please make decision today, out there so many hunger eyes looking messiah who help them first…
Quran Audio MP3 files download
http://www.islamicacademy.org/html/audio/Qirat/Qirat.htm
@Mohammed Akram – Shaytan azad ho gaya, sara ramzan sakoon tha yahan, tum phir maar gaai yahan….
Good pick Heena,
I recently travelled to Hong Kong in Ramadan and to my utter surprise that day all the people were asked to remove their shoes and walk on the floor barefooted through the X-ray amchine.
While I complained, I was told it is a normal procedure and I MUST follow it otherwise …. and yes they said the floor is clean.
but yes …. it was after the Iftaari so guess the guess were fresh.
Today religion is nothing but a CHARADE in Pakistan.
THIS is why we Pakistanis must separate Religion from Governance . . . so that Religion can be Religion, and Governance can be Governance.
The fact that this crime was attempted (during) the “holy” month of Ramadan clearly (demonstrates) “how” gullible Pakistani Muslims are when it come to religion. Anything can be done to us under the facade of religion (because) we put our REASONING at the back seat when it comes to Religion, Religious Festivities etc.
Henna, I also do not think that X-Ray machines can detect the insides of human intestines….other wise these machines may find out stuff that people usually do not want to see or know :-))
So did Dubai has the same rule as KSA, where if you caught with smuggling drugs (not medicines), they chop the head off ???
In Intestines … Geeky ;-)
SS Dubai is not KSA they are civilized and doing really good.
Thanks RC bro…
or sista :)
Hasan Zuberi, don’t know you have been to alot of airports in the worls but it is a usual practice these days to take off shoes and go through the X-ray. In alot of countries they followo this practice even for domestic flights. So don’t be surprised. I wonder what people will do if we implement this in Pakistan, I think they will get very cranky and for some people it will be an ego issue. I may be completely wrong and Pakistan must’ve already implemented me. But tell me what’s the situation for airport security in Karachi? What checks do you have to go through?
@ IMRAN:
Seperate religion from state ??
Brother … Islam is not a religion it is a way of life … it teaches you every aspect of life and not just bowing your head to your creater.
So how can you seperate your daily life schedule from the state ?? …. uncomprehensible.
@ XYZ:
I have travelled to majority of the destinations in South East Asia & Middle East … only experienced this (i.e. Shoe removal) at Dubai and even that only last year … but atleast the floor was carpeted and very clean … also theyhave put a mat where you have to walk barefooted, unlike Karachi airport where you can see the dirty lines of sweep-mop visible on the flooring.
Ok I need to task two things…
1 – XRAY machine caught up the Marijuana/Heroin? How did that happen?
2 – How the heck did he put all that in his intestines? I mean did he get it shoved up his pooper? or what? How can a person survive with something like that in his body? It’s a post by Heena P so you have got to confirm it.
Also, I tried looking for it on Google and couldn’t find anything. Perhaps, I am trying the wrong keywords. HEENA P, can you give us the source of this news please?
And oh Mr. India… I think you must have been sexually abused by a Paki back when you were a child? If you weren’t then get that shit out of your ass and move on and try to deal with all that shit you have in India. No seriously, I mean it… SHIT on the roads! Sheess!
Hasan Zuberi, airports in south east asian countries not always have these checks but almost all western countries require the passengers to take shoes off along with other objects with metal (belts, mobile phones of course). This is just a security measure to curb terrorism and smuggling of arms etc. This is for our own security and I believe everyone of us should be encouraging these measures and not look at them as a pain. Let’s make this world a peaceful place to live in.
Zee, totally agree with your questions. I would like to see the answers too!
Eid Mubarak to everyone! (if it applies to you and you celebrate it)
Hasan Zuberi, you wrote:
“Islam is not a religion (it is a way of life) … it teaches you …”
Heard (that) before … but call it religion or way of life, the politics of religion is essentially a battle for god … which practically divides humanity on the basis of (personal belief) rather than uniting humanity – we can all see that globally which ever religion we may or may not belong to.
To me ‘Humanism’ is a more transforming experience – because the basis of Humanism is not god, it is people.
“My religion is simple. My religion is kindness”.
~ Dalai Lama
And Kindness is one of the attributes of Allah which transfered in HIS creations which include non-Human living beings as well. Mr.Lama might not be able to understand this fact.
@Adnan Siddiqi
*** Dalai Lama might not be able to understand this fact.
Mr. Lama also does not understand other things as well, like:
1. You can’t make an imam out of a baby who is not even born
2. Secularism protects religions
Thats why he was kicked out of China. I hope Our Dalai Lamas (Fazlu, Qazi, etc) also get the same treatment.
These capsules in the intestines are pretty dangeoruos. You fall over and die instantly, such a case has already happened at Karachi Airport where the person was being taken for x-ray he tried to escape and fall over, capsule burst person died. Thse capsules are placed there by most unnatural of the method. All your guesses are right!
ABDUL SAMI: Oh my god! That must have hurt!
Adnan: I know you are gona try it but please remember what Abdul Sami just said. I don’t want you to die, not just yet :P
HEENA PEE: Seems like she is ignorant and can’t even dig up the source of this information. Oh or perhaps, she was having a PMS when she was writing this and just made up a story which would be equally painful :P
I found her source, yay! What do I win?
http://www.newkerala.com/oct.php?action=fullnews&id=9961