‘Drug dealer’ held

Published June 13, 2021

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh and police in a joint intelligence-based operation conducted in Baloch Para, Jahangir Road, arrested a “notorious drug dealer”, Shahnawaz Baloch alias Shano, and recovered 300 grams of ice and a pistol along with rounds from his possession.

The accused was involved in large-scale drug trafficking of ice, heroin and hashish.

He used to buy drugs from Hub, Balochistan and used to sell the narcotics in the Gurumandir, Lasbela, PIB Colony and Jamshed Road areas of the city. The suspect’s drug sales totalled around Rs0.5 million per month.­­

Published in Dawn, June 13th, 2021

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