Tag: Heroin

ANF seizes 13kg heroin

The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Wednesday foiled a smuggling bid and arrested a person with 13kg heroin at Benazir Bhutto International Airport. An official...

13kg heroin recovered at Islamabad Airport

Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Wednesday arrested a person from Benazir Bhutto Shaheed International Airport carrying over 13kg heroin in his luggage. According to media reports,...

Six kilogrammes of heroin seized

The Pakistan Customs’ Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC) of the Model Customs Collectorate (Preventive) has recovered about six kilogrammes of fine quality heroin from an...

Heroin worth over Rs 750m seized

The Drug Enforcement Cell of the Pakistan Customs' Model Customs Collectorate of Preventive, Karachi Airport has seized 73.5 kg fine quality heroin worth over...

MP’s nephew named in heroin smuggling case

The recently-arrested PIA airhostess and her air steward husband have disclosed that a nephew of parliamentarian Najamuddin Khan had handed them over a suitcase...

Pakistan Customs seizes 1.5kg heroin

KARACHI - The Pakistan Customs Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC), Karachi Airport Unit seized 1.5kg heroin concealed in children's jackets inside a postal parcel. The Customs DEC staff, while clearing the outgoing international parcels at the Pakistan Post's Express Mail Service at Shahrah-e-Faisal, intercepted a parcel booked from Gulshan-e-Iqbal Post Office for an address in Birmingham, UK.
A thorough search of the parcel led to the recovery of 500 grams of fine quality heroin in

Pakistani among 6 held in Kenya for carrying heroin

MOMBASA - Police in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Friday said they seized 196kg of heroin valued at about $5 million and arrested six people in the latest step by authorities to end drug trafficking in the country.
Officers acting on a tip off said they had arrested three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani, who oversaw the offloading of the drugs from a fishing boat into two waiting vehicles at dawn. The drugs were concealed in dog food packaging, police said.
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Zia’s war long over – NATO forces still exchanging heroin for...

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TARIQ HABIB
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan might not have heard of General Zia-ul-Haq, but drugs are being smuggled to them by tribes living along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Pakistan Today has learnt. ISAF troops, seemingly short on cash, are paying for these drugs by supplying weapons to those who provide them with heroin.
Heroin is being smuggled by transporters responsible for taking supplies to the ISAF

Customs DEC seizes 2kg heroin from Zambian woman

KARACHI - The Pakistan Customs Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC) Karachi Airport Unit recovered and confiscated two kilogrammes of heroin from the possession of a female passenger of Zambia on Wednesday.
The Customs DEC staff, following a tip-off that the drug mafia has been using African female passengers for drug trafficking, intercepting a Zambian passenger Rosaria Mubanga at the International Departure Hall of the Jinnah International Airport when she arrived there to take an

South African carrying 84 heroin capsules held at Karachi airport

The Pakistan Customs' Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC) arrested a South African passenger at Jinnah International Airport Karachi on Monday after it recovered 84 capsules filled with heroin from his body cavities.
The Customs DEC staff intercepted a South African passenger Willem Adriaan Swanepoel at the international departure hall of the Karachi airport when he arrived there to board Emirates Airlines' flight EK-603 for Antananarivo (Madagascar) using an expensive and complex route