Customs, NHMP seize 66kg of heroin

Contraband was being smuggled from K-P to Punjab

RAWALPINDI:

The customs officials and National Highway and Motorway Police (NHMP) recovered 66 kilogrammes (kgs) heroin in two separate incidents, but the suspects couldn’t be arrested in either case.

In the first incident, the staff of customs intelligence had an exchange of fire with drug peddlers after which they fled, abandoning 56kgs of drugs in the truck.

The customs officials said they had received a tip-off that a huge cache of heroin was being smuggled from KP to Lahore. A suspicious truck was signaled to stop, but it ignored the order. The customs officials gave chase and, after an exchange of fire, the suspects abandoned the truck and fled.

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The customs officer recovered 56kgs of heroin from the vehicle, which is worth billions of rupees in the international market. The truck and drugs have been shifted to the customs warehouse.

In another incident, the NHMP recovered a sack on the roadside near Chakri and recovered 11kgs of heroin from it.

A NHMP spokesperson said the drugs were handed over to the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) and they registered a case against unidentified suspects.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2021.