Crime
ANF seizes over 852 kg drugs; arrests six
The drugs had been recovered in 10 different operations.
Rawalpindi: Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) Pakistan while conducting 10 counter-narcotics operations across the country seized over 852 kg narcotics and arrested six accused, said an ANF Headquarters spokesman on Monday.
He informed that ANF North conducted an operation near Islamabad Motorway Toll Plaza and recovered 120 kg opium and 60 kg hashish from a car and rounded up three drug smugglers including a woman.
In another operation, a raid was conducted at a private courier company office near old Airport Rawalpindi and the force recovered 445 grams heroin from a parcel booked for Canada.
The third raid was conducted at a private courier company office near Kot Lakhpat Lahore, ANF recovered 880 grams ketamine from a parcel booked for America.
In another operation ANF recovered 1514 grams heroin from the possession of a Dubai-bound passenger resident of Gujrat, netted at Sialkot Airport.
The fifth operation was conducted in Taftan Balochistan by ANF and Frontier Constabulary (FC), 350 kg opium and 200 kg hashish were recovered.
The spokesman informed that ANF also recovered 54 kg hashish from the possession of an accused, resident of Noski arrested from Kuchlok Road Quetta.
Nearly 17,700 intoxicated tablets were recovered from an area near Zero-Line Torkhum Border.
In two operations conducted in Khyber by ANF and FC, 52.5 kg hashish and 3.5 kg Ice drug were recovered.
In 10th operation, ANF recovered 10.8 kg hashish from the possession of an accused resident of Karachi rounded up from North Nazimabad area in Karachi.
The arrested accused was also wanted in other cases, he added.
The spokesman said that separate cases have been registered against the accused while further investigations are under process.