Police seize 2,100 kg of hashish hidden in Karachi oil truck
Karachi police seized 2,100 kilograms of hashish hidden in specially built chambers of an oil truck at a roadblock set up after a tip-off on 1 May 2005. Three men in the truck were arrested and a fourth escaped; police said the men would be formally charged after investigation.
Police arrested three men and seized more than two tons of hashish from an oil
truck in Karachi on Sunday, an official said.[1]The 2,100 kilograms of hashish
were hidden in specially built chambers in the truck, Karachi police official
Sanaullah Abbasi said.[1]The seizure was made at a roadblock set up following
a tip-off.[1]
Arrests
The truck’s driver and two other men in the vehicle, all Pakistanis, were arrested
and were to be formally charged after an investigation, Abbasi said.[1]A fourth
man in the truck escaped.[1]Drug trafficking can carry the death penalty in
Pakistan.[1]
Case data
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Hazara Police recovered more than 100 kilograms of hashish during a 15-day division-wide crackdown targeting drug-trafficking networks. Regional Police Officer Jahanzaib Nazir Khan said the campaign also netted illegal weapons, dismantled vehicle-theft gangs and arrested hundreds of offenders.
Pakistan Customs stopped a carrot truck at its Digital Enforcement Station in Khurkhera on the RCD Highway on 8 November 2026 and found 51 kg of hashish in hidden compartments. The driver was arrested, and Customs valued the hashish and vehicle at Rs239.5 million.
The Anti-Narcotics Force arrested 15 suspected traffickers in ten operations across Pakistan and reported 50.702 kg of narcotics, of which 21.5 kg was hashish and cannabis. The cannabis seizures ran from 500 grams in Islamabad to 18 kg of hashish in Mianwali, and cases were registered under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997.
The Anti-Narcotics Force arrested eight suspects, including three women, in nine operations across Pakistan on 5 November 2026, seizing 152.997 kg of narcotics of which 41.525 kg was hashish and weed. Cases were registered under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, with investigations continuing.
