Gwadar drug cartel: Police recover six Yemeni ‘guarantors’

QUETTA:

Police on Thursday recovered six foreign nationals during a targeted raid on a hideout of alleged drug dealers in Gwadar district of Balochistan.

The foreigners were identified as Yemenis who were held hostage as guarantors while their ‘bosses’ failed to make the payment of drug consignment smuggled through the international maritime route, sources in Gwadar said.

SHO Imam Baksh told The Express Tribune that police acting upon a tip-off raided a house of a wanted criminal, Luqman, in Nayabad area where they recovered six foreigners whose hands were tied with rope and feet were chained. Luqman, however, managed to escape.

“The six foreigners were in his [Luqman] captivity for the last three years and they were brutally tortured,” SHO Bhaksh said, adding that they all speak Arabic language and belong to Yemen.

“Two of them came to Gwadar from Karachi by flight and four others used illegal sea route to reach here,” he noted.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 8^th, 2015.