Excise Zone A ETO Faisal Shehzad said, “We will raid these places in case they fail to comply with the orders. “Some of the restaurants [that serve alcohol] are on our radar, but most of them have already stopped such practice,” he said. However, to raid such places is purely within the excise department’s mandate and the teams would also “raid such places without any permission”. “The purposes behind these raids are to stop the business of liquor, not to harass anyone,” he added. Commenting on the excise letter, Lahore Gymkhana Chairman Kamran Lashari said, “There are no such activities in the premises of Lahore Gymkhana and this letter is irrelevant.”

Source: Pakistan Today October 15, 2019 18:00 UTC