Bid to smuggle heroin foiled

ANF also arrests three other accused and recovers narcotics

DIJKOT:

ANF teams arrested four alleged drug dealers during separate operations.

The ANF allegedly recovered 121 kilograms of charas, opium and 103 capsules of heroin from the possession of the alleged drug dealers in two separate operations, one at the Sahianwala Interchange and the other at the airport.

All the four accused had been arrested and cases registered against them under the Anti-Narcotics Act. According to ANF sources, the intelligence wing of the Anti-Narcotics Force had received a tip-off that two cars had been heading to Faisalabad from Peshawar with a supply of narcotics.

During the blockade near the Sahianwala Toll Plaza, the intelligence team intercepted the two cars and searched them.

Three alleged drug dealers, Syed Wahab, Nadir Khan and Mohammad Shafiq, who had been in the cars, were arrested when 50 kilograms of hashish and 36 kilograms of opium were recovered from some secret compartments of the cars.

The suspects allegedly told the ANF team that they used to smuggle drugs from Peshawar to Faisalabad and its environs.

The second operation was carried out by an ANF team at the airport where Muhammad Ishaq, a resident of Peshawar, who was scheduled to leave for Bahrain, was searched and transferred to a hospital when it was revealed that the suspect was allegedly carrying 103 heroin capsules in his stomach.

The ANF recovered 103 capsules. The capsules were said to be worth millions of rupees.

The ANF police station registered separate cases against the four alleged drug dealers and started investigation.

In April this year, police arrested three alleged drug dealers in Khurrianwala and recovered over 98 kilograms of charas from their possession.

According to police report, the SHO of Thikriwala Police Station, Rana Asim, got information that accused Sher Abbas, a resident of Chiniot, was going to deliver drugs.

Acting on the basis of the information, the SHO, along with ASIs Mubashir, Muzaffar Hussain, Tanveer Hussain and Abrar Ahmed, intercepted a car during a roadblock near Darbar Pir Moti Sayen, Chak No. 66 GB, Lunda Bridge Bypass.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 2^nd, 2022.