The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) conducted 10 operations at different places including Rawalpindi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar, which resulted into recovery of 4.12 tons of narcotics valuing Rs 5742 million in the international market.
A senior official of ANF said that during the on-going operation against drugs mafia, the ANF team also booked 12 drug traffickers as well as recovered 4.025 ton opium, 17.6 kg heroin and 81.6 kg hashish.
He said ANF team at Benazir Bhutto International Airport had recovered six kiligrammes heroin from a person namely Muhammad Shakeel, resident of Chakwal. Shakeel was due to take off for Milan (Italy) via Doha by Qatar Airline flight no QR-631.
Similarly, another ANF team in Rawalpindi intercepted a Suzuki Bolan car near Chak Chakora Chakwal, Road Jehlum and recovered 1.2 kg hashish from the hidden parts of the car and arrested two persons, Syed Zaheer Abbas and Wishal Ahmaed resident of Chakwal, he said.
The official said the anti-narcotics force arrested a Nigerian national namely Ekene Okos suspicion of having swallowed heroin filled capsules. The accused confessed of having ingested heroin filled capsules, during investigation. ANF team arrested Ekene Okos during a raid conducted in hotel located in sector F-10 Markaz. The accused was planning to depart for Cairo via Doha by Qatar Airline, he said.
He said ANF also carried out operation in Quetta and recovered 4,025 kg from Sardar Kamal Khan, on Lahore Road during checking. The ANF team near Abdul Malik Interchange, Lahore, intercepted a Suzuki Cultus Car and recovered 10 Kg heroin concealed in the secret cavities of the said car and arrested Wajid Ali Khan.
During surveillance at Road Check set up at Sakhi Sarwar Road, Dera Ghazi Khan, the team seized a car and recovered 22kg Charas concealed in it. Similarly, ANF Peshawar during routine checking seized a Toyota Hiace No E-5663 near Kohat Bus Stand in Peshawar City. During search of the vehicle, 44.4kg hashish was recovered, which was concealed in improvised cavities. The team also recovered one kg heroin during raid in Peshawar, 14 kg hashish at Karachi from a local drug supplier Mureed Majeedano and during another routine surveillance at Karachi, ANF team recovered 600 gram heroin at Jinna International Airport with a passenger namely Najam-ul-Hassan.
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