Officials of the Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation of the Federal Board of Revenue, acting on a tip-off about a truck smuggling drugs from Peshawar to Punjab, set up a picket near Ring Road in Peshawar to intercept truck RIH-1396.[1] The driver sped through the picket, officers chased the truck and found it abandoned on GT Road with the driver gone.[1] A search recovered 350 kg of foreign-origin charas, cannabis resin, and 22 kg of foreign-origin opium.[1] The opium is not counted in this report’s cannabis figures.[1]
Customs seize 350 kg of charas from abandoned truck near Peshawar
Customs intelligence officers acting on a tip-off chased a truck smuggling drugs from Peshawar toward Punjab and found it abandoned on GT Road with 350 kg of foreign-origin charas and 22 kg of opium aboard. The driver escaped and no arrests were reported.
🇵🇰 Ring Road, Peshawar · Pakistan
- Cannabis
- 350 kg
- Agency
- Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation
- Cannabis
- Hashish
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 350 kg
- Agency
- Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation
- Agency type
- Customs
- Cannabis
- Hashish (350 kg)
- Activity
- Smuggling
- Setting
- Vehicle
- Case stage
- Under investigation
- Date
- Publication date
Sources
- Federal Board of Revenue (Pakistan)fbr.gov.pkArchived copyCustoms officials seize 372kgs drugs
Open questions the AI reported
- The release is dated 25 November 2008 but says the statement was issued on a Wednesday; 25 November 2008 was a Tuesday, so the raid's exact day is unclear.
- The account rests on a single agency press release; no press or second official account was found.
- The driver escaped and is not named; no arrests, charges or later seizures from the tip-off are reported.
- The same truck carried 22 kg of foreign-origin opium, which is excluded from the cannabis figures here.
- No photograph of the truck or the seizure with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
