Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force arrested seven suspects, including a woman, during eight operations in cities across the country.[1] UrduPoint gave the same ANF action an Urdu headline about operations against drug smuggling with seven suspects including a woman arrested.[2] Cases were registered against those held under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, and further investigation was under way.[1] The woman held at the Sialkot bus terminal had previously been convicted in a narcotics case, the ANF said.[1]

In Nawaz Chali, Jiwani, in Gwadar district, officers recovered 246 kg of hashish and 165 kg of crystal methamphetamine from a pickup vehicle, concealed in jerry cans.[1] At the Motorway Toll Plaza in Peshawar, officers recovered 120 kg of hashish concealed in specially built hidden compartments of a truck.[1] In Islamabad, officers recovered 6 kg of hashish from a bus passenger and 9.6 kg of hashish from hidden compartments in a vehicle, both at the Motorway Toll Plaza, and in Sialkot recovered 1.34 kg of hashish from a man and a woman at a bus terminal.[1] The five separately stated hashish seizures of 246 kg, 6 kg, 120 kg, 9.6 kg and 1.34 kg total 382.94 kg of cannabis.[1]

The Gwadar consignment was reportedly intended to be smuggled to Yemen through speedboats and small vessels.[1] The remaining seizures were non-cannabis drugs excluded from the cannabis figure, including ice, opium, 23,030 narcotic pills weighing 3.15 kg and 1.1 kg of ecstasy tablets hidden in speakers in a Lahore courier parcel.[1]