PESHAWAR: A lecturer of Islamia College, in Peshawar, has been arrested on suspicion of selling drugs to university students.
SSP Operations Sajjad Khan told a local media outlet that Bashir Ahmad, a lecturer in the English department, was arrested from Regi Model Town, an area in the city that shares a border with Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
A total of 20 grammes of ‘ice’ and 150 grammes of hashish were recovered from the lecturer, said Sajjad.
According to details, the professor resisted the arrest, said the official, adding that two pistols were also recovered from him.
Initial investigations suggest the teacher was supplying drugs to students in the university.
Sajjad said complaints of drugs being used in the varsity had been reported.
According to Web MD, ‘ice’ is the street name for the illegal drug methamphetamine – which mainly comes in the form of a white powder or crystals. It can be swallowed, snorted, injected, or as is becoming more common, smoked.
Meth works by flooding the brain with massive amounts of dopamine, a neurochemical normally released in small amounts in response to something pleasurable.