ISLAMABAD: A team of Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) recovered 23.5 kilogram heroin, 7.19 ton hashish and 21.5 kilogram opium in seven operations in Abbotabad, Qilla Abdullah, Peshawar, Karachi and Sukkur.
The ANF also arrested seven drug traffickers including one proclaimed offender and impounded two vehicles during the operations. The worth of seized drugs is Rs 4.5 billion in international market. ANF Quetta in an intelligence-led operation at Qilla Abdullah, seized 6.351 ton hashish. According to details, the drug consignment was concealed at an uninhabited site located at Musafar Killi, tehsil Gulistan, district Qilla Abdullah.
As per initial information, the drug consignment was placed at a cache site for handing over to some other narcotics gang for onwards dispatch on receipt of safe signal. ANF Karachi on pursuance of an information raided a house near Masjid Quaba, Ghazi Town Malir, Karachi and seized 442.65 kilograms of hashish and 13.7 kilograms of opium concealed inside the house.
A person named Sameer resident of Karachi was also arrested during the operation. In another operation, ANF Karachi intercepted a Hino truck at Shikarpur Road, Sukkur and recovered 200 kilograms of hashish concealed inside the body of the truck, along with arresting a person on board namely Nasir Ahmed on the spot. Yet in another operation, ANF Karachi in collaboration with Pakistan Sindh Rangers raided a house at Lyari Karachi, recovering 200 kilograms of hashish, 7.8 kilograms of opium and 2.5 kilograms of heroin concealed inside the house, along with arrested a person named Abdus Samad resident of Karachi.
ANF Peshawar intercepted a Toyota car near Rashakai Motorway Interchange, Nowshera and recovered 20 kilograms of heroin concealed in it. Two persons on board Gul Khan and Adnan Gul both resident Peshawar were also arrested. In another operation ANF Peshawar arrested a drug supplier named Pervez Khan resident of district Abbotabad and recovered 1 kilograms of heroin concealed in a pair of shoes. He was arrested at Daewoo Bus Stand, Peshawar. Meanwhile, ANF Rawalpindi arrested a proclaimed offender Jameel Hussain resident of Rawalpindi who was wanted in FIR No. 45/2010 of PS ANF Dina. All cases have been registered in ANF police stations and investigations are under progress.
