Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) in five operations managed to recover over 195 kg drugs, 1840 intoxicated tablets and arrested five accused, said an ANF Headquarters spokesman. He informed that in two operations at Rawalpindi International Mail Office, ANF recovered 1840 intoxicated tablets from two parcels being sent to London.
In an operation at Bacha Khan International Airport, 83 heroin-filled capsules were recovered from the possession of a Dubai-bound passenger resident of Khyber. In another operation conducted in Khyber area, ANF and FC recovered 27 kg charras concealed in plastic bags. In fifth operation, ANF conducted a raid near Hub Winder RCD Highway and foiled a bid to smuggle drugs from Quetta to Karachi. 168 kg charras was recovered during the operation from secret cavities of a bus while four accused residents of Quetta were also sent behind the bars.
He said that separate cases have been registered against the accused while further investigations are under process. Meanwhile Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chatta has said that the Anti-Encroachment drive continued in the Municipal Corporation Rawalpindi areas would be intensified in eight more markets of the city after Eid. Talking to media persons, the Commissioner said that immediate steps were being taken to boost business activities in the prevailing economic situation in the country.
He said that NOCs of stalled petrol pumps, plazas, and housing societies would be issued in two weeks while regular desks for issuance of NOCs had been established in Deputy Commissioner and MCR office. Chatta said that during the ongoing anti-encroachment drive around eight city markets had been cleared from the encroachers while the remaining bazaars would be made free of encroachments in collaboration with the business community after Eid.—INP
