LAHORE: The Excise officials seized 1,000 kg opium in a huge quantity has seized from Sargodha.
The officials said that they stopped a Lahore-bound truck at a check point setup in the Bhagtanwala police precincts and seized the drug and arrested two accused Altaf Hussain and Qamar Shahzed.
Police have registered a case against the accused and impounded the vehicle.
Opium is mostly smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan which is the world’s largest producer of opium.