PESHAWAR: The Anti-Narcotic Force continued crackdown on drugs peddlers and nabbed three accused with five kgs of chars and heroine in different raids conducted in Peshawar and Mansehra. Spokesman for Anti-Narcotics Force Mr Saeed Ahmad told Customs Today that the force had been striving hard to root out the menace of narcotics and always act swiftly whenever get tip-off.
He informed that the ANF Peshawar during routine checking arrested an Afghan national identified as Aman Khan, son of Sundai Khan, with one-kg hashish while travelling in a passenger van Hiace (LES-1110) Motorway Toll Plaz.
He said that the accused was on the way to Rawalpindi to deliver narcotics. Similarly in another raid, the ANF nailed a passenger identified as Imran Khan s/o Misri Khan, a resident of Kurram Agency along with 500 grams of heroin near Main Motorway Toll Plaza. The peddler had concealed the drugs in his shoes and was was proceeding to Gujrat for delivery of drugs.
Meanwhile, the ANF nabbed a local drug peddler Nazir Muhammad, son of Gul Rojan, a resident of Mansehra and recovered four kgs of Charas from his possession. The force busted him while riding a bike near Bus Stand in Mansehra City.
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