Drug haul: FC intercepts drug mules carrying hashish shipment

QUETTA:

The paramilitary Frontier Corps, Balochistan, during a raid in the mountainous stretches of killa Abdullah district, seized 544 kilogrammes of hashish that was being smuggled in to Pakistan from Afghanistan in sacks loaded on donkeys.

Col Commandant of FC Malik Sarwar led the raid in the Roghani area close to the Afghan border near Chaman.

According to the FC spokesman, the smugglers fled on seeing the paramilitary troops approaching, leaving behind drugs worth millions of rupees.

In a separate raid, the paramilitary force that enjoys policing powers in Balochistan destroyed poppy crop spread over 150 acres in the Dukki area of the Loralai district.

Representatives of the local government and the district administration were also present during the operation.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 30^th,  2016.