At the airport: ANF seizes 1kg heroin

Officials arrest resident of Sheikhupura who was intending to go to Saudi Arabia, and registered case against him

RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force on Saturday seized one kilogramme of heroin from a passenger’s bag at Benazir Bhutto International Airport. Officials of ANF, during routine checking, confiscated a bag and during its search recovered white heroin. The officials arrested the owner of the bag identified as Muhammad Rasheed, a resident of Sheikhupura. He was intended to go to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A case was registered against him and is being interrogated, added the official. The Saudi government has recently beheaded around five Pakistanis for smuggling heroin to the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 16^th, 2014.