LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs team deputed at Allama Iqbal International Airport foiled bid to smuggle heroin abroad.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Basit Maqsood Abbasi received information about smuggling of heroin. He directed customs staff to enhance checking of the passengers. The joint customs and ANF team was constituted which intercepted a passenger who was identified as Iqbal Khan and recovered heroin. He was ready to depart for Doha.
The heroin was concealed in the luggage by Iqbal Khan, a resident of Charsaddah. He was taken into custody by the ANF for further investigations.
Earlier, on December 16, Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) authorities claimed to have seized a parcel bound for the United States, carrying drugs.
According to the ANF authorities, during an action in Sialkot, they foiled a bid to smuggle drugs abroad in a parcel. The recovered parcel carried around 6.9 kilograms of drugs and could worth upto millions in the international market.
The authorities said that the drugs were booked for a US address and the authorities are further probing the matter.
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