QUETTA: Collectorate of Customs team recovered 500 kilograms hashish and 7 kilograms opium from a Bedford truck coming from Afghanistan border area. The drug was concealed under the sand while driver of the vehicle fled away getting advantage of darkness.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Ashraf Ali after receiving information through a source that few anti-state elements intended to smuggle drugs into the country. All check posts were tightened to check each vehicle thoroughly. The staff of Customs check post Baleli during thorough checking found a truck parked before the check post of Baleli unattended with painted registration no: QAB-3435 (on bumper).
The staff brought the truck at the check post and unloaded the sand on the ground and found special designed cavities on the floor of truck and recovered 500 packets of chars (hashish) each 1000 grams and seven kilogram of opium.
The sources said that the staff of Customs check post Baleli Quetta took possession of the aforementioned vehicle along with chars and opium and seized the same for violation of the provision of Section 2(s), 15,16 of the Customs Act 1989.
The sources of Customs Quetta told that the Assistant Collector Rana Umair and Superintendent Khurshid Hassani participated in above-said operation.
