ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) is still clueless about the racket involved in smuggling of heroin abroad through the aircrafts of the stated-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).
An officer of the ANF told the Senate Standing Committee on Interior that no arrest had been made so far in the two separate incidents of recovery of heroin from the PIA’s aircrafts, one at the Heathrow Airport, London and the other at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad.
Brigadier Hammad Ahmed Dogar, enforcement commander ANF informed the committee that met under the chair of Senator Rehman Malik that the force had probed around 60 suspects including ground staff, sanitary workers and cabin crew but no arrest could be made in the case yet.
“We have also asked PIA and [the] Airport Security Force (ASF) for the footage of CCTV cameras. The contraband was recovered in the catering gallery of the plane that was cleared to fly to London,” he said.
The ANF officer said that a separate inquiry headed by senior police officer Hussain Asghar was underway on the directions of the prime minister and his findings would have much more significance.
“All agencies concerned including the ANF, and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) etc are included in this inquiry team,” he said.
On May 22, 14.7kg of heroin was recovered from a London-bound PIA flight at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport during an inspection led by the ANF.
