PESHAWAR: The excise police on Monday arrested two drug peddlers and recovered a large quantity of narcotics.
According to a spokesman for the excise police station for Peshawar region, a bid to smuggle 10kgof heroin to Punjab was foiled on the Ring Road Motorway.
“During the operation, heroin was recovered from the secret compartments of a vehicle,” he said.
The spokesman said drug smuggler Rehman Syed of Timargara was arrested.
In another operation, the excise police recovered six kilogrammes of hashish from a vehicle and arrested drug peddler Zeeshan Ahmed of Gulbela Kochian, Peshawar. They registered cases against the arrested men and started quizzing them.
Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2024
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