Police Catch: Over a dozen held for selling drugs

ISLAMABAD: Police, during the last two weeks, have arrested over a dozen suspects involved in supplying drugs to students of various educational institutions in the capital. Police had launched a special campaign on the directives of Interior Minister Chuaudhry Nisar to arrest the drug peddlers. Officials said that at least 17 suspects had been arrested by the Sadar Zone police over the past 15 days. Sadar Zone SP Zeeshan Haider said that police teams had also recovered 7.5kg of hashish and 68 bottles of liquor from the suspects. He said separate cases had been registered against the suspects in various police stations of the zone.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 5^th, 2017.