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Agents foil attempt to smuggle Buddha relics out of Pakistan

Other News Materials 20 December 2008 11:19 (UTC +04:00)

Pakistani customs agents seized two Buddha sculptures which were being smuggled to China, media reports said Saturday.

The artefacts were concealed in mail parcels intercepted Thursday at a post office in the southern city of Karachi, the English-language newspaper Dawn said.

The report said the consignment was booked by a man named Aijaz Ahmed in the capital Islamabad, bound for Beijing where it was to be delivered to a Chinese national identified as Zuo Jianhui.

The national museum will perform an authentication study of the relics, reported dpa.

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