TAXILA: The Attock Khurd Police on Thursday foiled a bid to smuggle huge quantity of narcotics from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Punjab and arrested a smuggler.

The police spokesman said that acting on a tip off, a police party led by SHO Khanzada Sheroze intercepted a car on G.T. Road at Attock Khurd check post and during a search 33 kg hashish was recovered from the hidden parts of the vehicle. During preliminary interrogation, the suspect revealed that he was a member of an inter-provincial racket of narcotics smuggler and was smuggling the consignment from tribal areas to various cities of Punjab.

A case was registered against the suspect undersection 9-C of control of narcotics substance act 1997 and launched further investigation. The spokesman said that the value of the seized narcotics is millions of rupees in

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2024

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