Drug bust: Three arrested with heroin

RAWALPINDI: The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) arrested a passenger from Benazir Bhutto International Airport and recovered 100 heroin-filled capsules from his possession. An ANF spokesman said on Tuesday that the ANF airport team arrested Shaikh Muhammad Shahid, who confessed of having 100 heroin-filled capsules in his stomach. He was booked for Bangkok, Thailand on a foreign airline. Meanwhile, the ANF also conducted a raid at Pirwadhai Mor, near Ghousia Bus Stand and recovered 800 grams of heroin from two foreign nationals. The drugs were concealed in their brief case. According to the ANF, the nabbed men were identified as Nwanna Casmir, a Zambian national, and Ukeh Sunday Kenneth, Nigerian national.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 29^th, 2014.