RAWALPINDI, July 12: Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Tuesday launched hunt for two Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees allegedly involved in trafficking of 5kg of heroin to Toronto.

The arrest of the airline’s two ground employees, one a senior passenger officer (SPO) Amir Mashood and the other driver Fida Hussain, came about after the Canadian authorities informed the airline that they had seized an unattended baggage tagged with a PIA flight PK-781 baggage tag.

The flight was coming from Islamabad last Friday which led to the recovery of 5kg of heroin from the unattended baggage.

Meanwhile, the ANF has approached the Canadian authorities for the return of the seizure.

Col Mohammad Riaz of the ANF said the arrested driver Fida Hussain had confessed to being involved in  drug trafficking and that security guard Arshad Khan Khokhar was the mastermind of the drug trafficking.

He said: “The arrested driver has owned responsibility and revealed that it was their first attempt.”

The ANF has asked the PIA authorities to probe their men and then hand them over to ANF. However, raids are under way in Sialkot, the native town of Arshad to capture him and his accomplice Mubarik who had been missing since the incident came to light.

Meanwhile, a manager of a hotel was gunned down at his work place at Pirwadhai on Tuesday night, police said.

Mohammad Nawaz, 35, was sitting at the rooftop of his hotel when he was shot dead by an unidentified gunman. The motive behind the murder was not known.