Busted: Bid to smuggle drugs foiled

RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force on Monday foiled a bid to smuggle drugs to Saudi Arabia and arrested a passenger at Benazir Bhutto International Airport. The passenger, identified as Muhammad Rashid, was intending to travel to Riyadh when an ANF team took him into custody from the departure lounge after recovering 1kg of Methamphetamine from his briefcase. The drugs were concealed in the briefcase. The police registered a case against him under the anti-narcotics law and an investigation is under way.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2014.