LARGE quantities of contraband foodgrains drift nightly along the Pakistan coast in [boats] to Cutch and other neighbouring Indian ports under the cover of darkness and nobody seems able to stop ...

the activities of the smugglers. The Pakistan Food Minister recently admitted that large scale smuggling was going on, but neither the Central nor the Provincial Government seems to be doing anything about it.

The Customs officers plead that their resources are too inadequate to tackle the job. ...Numerous are the smuggling points and varied are the smugglers` devices and when it comes to facing the Custom-men they have literally their fingers on the trigger. One smuggling point is the Bram Hydri Creek about seven miles from Karachi. Bram Hydri is a small fishing village and has a customs outpost manned by a single officer and his peon. There is no police post or telephone.

The nearest telephone is three and a quarter miles away at the Korangi creek. ... [T]he customs officer and his solitary peon often helplessly watch the loading of contraband grains on the [boats). Dawn Staff Correspondent