Four held in Kohat with 16.9 kg of hashish and 1.9 kg of ice
Kohat police arrested four alleged drug dealers in separate operations by City Police Station officers and seized 16,880 grams (about 16.9 kg) of hashish along with 1,903 grams of crystal meth. Separate cases were registered against the men and they were handed to investigation staff.
Kohat police arrested four alleged narcotics dealers in separate operations
carried out by City Police Station officers in Kohat district, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.[1]Officers seized16,880 grams (about 16.9 kg) of hashish and
1,903 grams of crystal meth, known locally as ice, from the four suspects.[1]
The arrested men were identified as Basiruddin, son of Nizamuddin and a resident
of Garhi Mawaz Khan, Nauman, son of Shaukat and a resident of Lachi who lives in
Hafizabad, Shahid, son of Mir Zaman and a resident of Muhammadzai, and Daud, son
of Zahoor and a resident of Hafizabad.[1]Separate cases were registered
against the four and they were handed to investigation staff for further legal
proceedings.[1]
The operations followed directives from District Police Officer Kohat Rai Mazhar
Iqbal, a senior superintendent of police, to act against drug traffickers across
the district.[1]The article reports the narcotics arrests alongside other
separate operations in the same district crackdown, including a search at Mills
police station and an intervention in a land dispute near Jarma police station.[1]
The figures are police totals for the four arrests and no split by suspect, or
street value for the drugs, was published.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Cannabis
16.88 kg
Agency
Kohat Police City Police Station
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish (16.88 kg)
Activity
Sale, Trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Date
Publication date
Sources
UrduPointurdupoint.comKohat Police Arrest Four Alleged Drug Dealers, Recover Ice And Hashish
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no date for the arrests beyond its 7 November 2026 publication date, which is used as the incident date.
No street value was published for the hashish or the ice.
The weight is stated as 16,880 grams without a separate split by suspect or by operation.
No charges, plea or court outcome were reported beyond the registration of separate cases against the four.
Only one accessible account was found; it is an Associated Press of Pakistan report republished by UrduPoint, and no independent corroboration was located.
The article also reports a separate Mills police station operation that arrested Yasir, Arshad, Abdul Haq, Sohail, Khalid and Osama with weapons; no drugs are attributed to that group and they are not counted in this report.
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