Bound for mid-east: Coast guards seize 900kg hashish

QUETTA: Pakistan Coast Guard (PCG) arrested two men in Pasni town of Balochistan for trying to smuggle over Rs0.4 billion worth of hashish hidden in secret compartments of a water tanker. According to PCG, officials intercepted a tanker at Badook check-post near the coastal town of Pasni and on checking recovered nine boxes each containing almost 100kg of hashish. Two drug traffickers accompanying the shipment were also arrested and were detained for interrogation.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28^th,  2016.