Iranian substandard cooking oil smuggled into Karachi
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It has been revealed that substandard cooking oil which was smuggled from Iran is being sold in the suburban areas of the country’s largest city Karachi, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Wednesday.
The weekly selling ratio of Iran-smuggled cooking reached 60,000 tonnes and monthly reached 0.25m tons at the price of Rs200 per litre.
Sources said that the smelly cooking oil sale-exchange continued with complete tax evasion.
Cooking oil in Pakistan is being imported from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Reporter Basim Iftikhar