ISLAMABAD: (Yaseen Hashmi) Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) in Pakistan has stepped up its campaign to fight drug trafficking in the country by arresting nine of those suspected of the crime, in various operations conducted near schools and in various cities.
As per a spokesperson of ANF, in eight different operations, the ANF retrieved 17.39 kilograms of narcotics valued at over 2.2 million Pakistani Rupees.
The arrest of one suspect in Jammu Road Sialkot, which resulted in the seizure of 2.2 kilograms of hashish, was due to the operations in the vicinity of educational institutions. In another raid near a university in Hattar Road, Haripur, 400 grams of hashish were recovered by the officials on a suspect. Both of them were supposed to have admitted to having provided students with drugs.
In Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, ANF intercepted a passenger on his way to Qatar and discovered 1.08 kilograms of methamphetamine (ice) in his baggage. Meanwhile, 880 grams of ice in clothing were found in a parcel going to New Zealand in Jinnah International Airport, Karachi.
Other recoveries were 30 grams of weed in a courier office in Chaklala Garrison of Rawalpindi, 6 kilograms of hashish in two women and a man around Fateh Chowk, Hyderabad, 3.6 kilograms of hashish near a Rawalpindi bus terminal and 3.2 kilograms of ice in a woman near an Islamabad motorway toll plaza.
All the suspects were booked by Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, and additional investigations are in progress.
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