SWABI: The motorway police foiled a drug smuggling bid and recovered a huge quantity of hashish and opium from a car near the Swabi Interchange on the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway here on Wednesday, officials said.

They said the police signalled a man driving a car going at a high speed to stop, but he sped away. The police chased the vehicle, but the driver abandoned the car on the roadside and disappeared amid thick fog.

On search, the police recovered 128.5 kilogrammes hashish and 53.5kg opium from the vehicle. The car was taken to Chota Lahor city police station.

SHO Shahzad said an FIR would be registered against unidentified drug smuggler.

TWO KILLED: A woman was shot dead in Anbar village of Chota Lahor on Wednesday, Rescue 1122 and police officials said.

They said the firing left her seriously injured, and a team of the rescue service shifted her to Bacha Khan Medical Complex, Shahmansoor, where doctors pronounced her dead.

The police said cause of the firing and identity of the accused couldn’t be known. They said the deceased aged 35.

Meanwhile, rivals killed one Ijaz Akbar in Swabi city over an old enmity, the police said.

Separately, two unidentified suspects opened fire on a patrolling party of the Chota Lahor city police station near the Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway, district police officer Haroon Rashid Khan said.

He said the police noticed two suspects during routine patrolling, and when they chased them, the suspects opened fire. However, he said the police retaliated, forcing the men to disappear in the nearby populated area leaving their weapons behind.

The police launched a search operation to locate them, he added.

Published in Dawn, January 11th, 2024