ISLAMABAD: The Airport Security Force (ASF) Friday arrested a Nigerian passenger at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) for possessing heroin.
The detained passenger, identified as Filpines, was leaving Pakistan on Istanbul-bound flight TK-711 when immigration officials searched his luggage and found 430 grams of heroin hidden in the pocket of a pair of dress pants, the sources said.
ASF officials detained the passenger on the spot. Filpines was handed over to the Anti-Narcotics Force for further investigation.
A First Information Report was registered against the foreigner and he will be produced at a local court in Rawalpindi tomorrow, the sources said.
