ANF foils bid to smuggle 12kg heroin

PESHAWAR: ANF on Friday claimed to have foiled an attempt to smuggle 12kg heroin to Punjab from Peshawar.

The ANF impounded a truck near Chanab Toll Plaza on Gujrat GT Road and recovered 12kg heroin. The police arrested two accused from Peshawar involved in the drug peddling.

In another action, the ANF recovered 2kg ice from a parcel being dispatched to Bahrain from GPO, Islamabad. The ice was concealed in tins of milk powder. The anti-narcotic force also recovered 10kg charas from a car near Mastung Bypass and arrested an accused belonging to Qalat.

They also found 100kg charas buried in an under-construction house near Turbat Dhanook.

In another action, the ANF recovered 1,450 hallucinating drugs from the possession of a passenger at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi. He who was going to Mascat and he hailed from Muzaffargarh.

The ANF spokesperson said that investigation has started against all the accused after registering cases against them under the anti-narcotics act.

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