RAWALPINDI, June 9 A major security was launched at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Monday after an abandoned bag containing a jacket filled with white powder was found at the VIP parking area.

However, later the bomb disposal experts declared that the powder was not explosive but narcotics, official sources said.

The bag was found abandoned at the Rawal Lounge parking lot and the airport security staff put it in the bomb disposal ditch as a precaution. Later, the bomb disposal experts reached at the scene and opened the bag. Panic was created when a jacket filled with white powder similar to that usually used by suicide bombers was found in the bag, a bomb disposal expert said.

However, he said there was no detonator nor any other device connected to the jacket. The jacket contained more than 5kg heroin that was later seized by the Anti-Narcotics Force. However, nobody was arrested.

Meanwhile, a motorbike rider was killed and his pillion rider injured after being hit by a passenger bus on Benazir Bhutto road at Waris Khan area on Monday.

Waqas Ali aged between 19 and 20 was going home with his friend Noman on a motorbike when a Varan bus hit them from behind killing Waqas and injuring his friend. The dead and injured were removed to hospital while the bus driver escaped.

Qasir Adnan's wife was robbed of gold ornaments in the RA Bazaar while three gunmen looted 30 tola gold jewellery and prize bonds from the house of Shakil Ahmed in the Airport police area.

Mukarab Hussain told the Civil Line police that thieves broke into his house and stole Rs650,000 in cash. Raja Hammad's car was lifted from the Civil Line area, Abdul Sattar's carry van was taken away from the Cantonment area while Khurshid Ahmed's car was stolen in New Town.