The Anti-Narcotics Force arrested eight suspects, including three women, during nine operations across Pakistan.[1] Two suspects held near colleges in Attock confessed to selling drugs to students of educational institutions.[1] Cases were registered against the arrested suspects under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, and further investigation was under way.[2]
In Attock, officers recovered 200 grams of hashish from a motorcyclist near a college and 125 grams of hashish from a suspect near a college on Fateh Jang Road.[1] Near Lilliani Toll Plaza in Kasur, officers recovered 36 kilograms of hashish alongside 12 kilograms of opium and two kilograms of ice from a rickshaw, arresting two suspects.[1] At the Motorway Toll Plaza in Islamabad, officers seized one kilogram of hashish from two female passengers travelling on public transport.[1] Near Terkai Toll Plaza in Sohawa, Jhelum, officers recovered 1.2 kilograms of hashish from a female suspect.[1] In Karachi, officers recovered three kilograms of weed from an abandoned bag near a bus terminal on Shahrah-e-Pakistan Road.[1]
The ANF put the nine operations’ combined seizure at 152.997 kilograms of narcotics, with the separately stated hashish and weed seizures totalling 41.525 kilograms of cannabis.[1] At Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar, officers recovered five kilograms of ice concealed in clothes in the luggage of a passenger travelling to Jeddah for Umrah and arrested the suspect.[1] In Lahore’s Gulberg area, 90 kilograms of ice soaked into 75 women’s suits were recovered from a parcel destined for Australia at a courier office.[1] In Quetta, 162 grams of ice were seized from a parcel bound for New Zealand at a private courier office on Spinny Road.[1]
