Quetta Customs foils bid to smuggle Hashish worth Rs200 million into Pakistan
Quetta Customs foils bid to smuggle Hashish worth Rs200 million into Pakistan
QUETTA (Dunya News) - Pakistan Customs Quetta has foiled an attempt to smuggle Hashish from Afghanistan into the country. A ton of hashish worth more than Rs200 million was recovered from a truck. A case has been registered against the absconding accused.
According to Irfan Javed, Collector, Customs Enforcement and Compliance, Quetta, on a tip-off, formed a special team of customs personnel, which began special surveillance of trucks coming from Afghanistan.
He said that last night when the customs team signaled to stop a ten wheeler truck near Chaman border, the truck driver and the unidentified accused stopped the truck at some distance and took advantage of the darkness and fled.
Irfan Javed said that the customs personnel took the truck into their custody and conducted a thorough search of the truck as a result of which one ton of high quality hashish worth Rs. 207 million was recovered from the special caches made in the truck.
The seized hashish and the truck were confiscated and a case was registered against the absconding accused.
