RAWALPINDI, Aug 03 (APP):The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) conducted 10 operations across the country and arrested 12 suspects, seizing 193.57 kilograms(kgs) of narcotics worth more than Rs 30.5 million, an ANF spokesman said on Monday. During operations near educational institutions, ANF recovered 24 kg of hashish from a suspect near a university on GT Road, Rawalpindi, and seized 23.3 kg of hashish from a motorcyclist near a school on Peshawar Road, …
ANF seizes over 193 kg of drugs, arrests 12 suspects in nationwide operations
RAWALPINDI, Aug 03 (APP):The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) conducted 10 operations across the country and arrested 12 suspects, seizing 193.57 kilograms(kgs) of narcotics worth more than Rs 30.5 million, an ANF spokesman said on Monday.
During operations near educational institutions, ANF recovered 24 kg of hashish from a suspect near a university on GT Road, Rawalpindi, and seized 23.3 kg of hashish from a motorcyclist near a school on Peshawar Road, Rawalpindi.
The spokesman said the arrested suspects confessed to supplying drugs to students of educational institutions.
In international interdiction operations, ANF recovered 58.5 kg of methamphetamine (ice) concealed inside LED lights from a parcel destined for Saudi Arabia at a courier office in Rawalpindi.
At Quetta International Airport, officials recovered 3.47 kg of Xanax tablets concealed in bags of halwa and nimko from the luggage of a passenger travelling to Riyadh.
At the cargo shed of Lahore International Airport, ANF seized 3 kg of heroin concealed inside cartons of gloves from a parcel destined for the United Kingdom.
In inter-provincial operations, ANF recovered 43.2 kg of hashish from a vehicle near Sangjani Toll Plaza and arrested three suspects.
In another operation near Islamabad Toll Plaza, officials seized 28.8 kg of hashish from two vehicles and apprehended two suspects.
Near Sher Shah Toll Plaza in Multan, ANF recovered 24 kg of hashish from a vehicle and arrested two suspects.
In domestic operations, ANF recovered 9.6 kg of hashish from the possession of two suspects near a hotel on the National Highway in Hyderabad.
In a separate operation at a cargo office in Shumali Market, Peshawar, officials recovered 500 grams of methamphetamine ice concealed inside an electric stove from a parcel.
Cases have been registered against the arrested suspects under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, and further investigations are underway.
