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<\/a><\/p>\n10 January 2012<\/p>\n
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Pakistan Customs Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC), Karachi Airport Unit seized seventeen kilogrammes of fine quality heroin concealed in a garments consignment for Lagos, Nigeria and arrested two persons involved in the offence.<\/p>\n
Custom Officer Qamar Thalho said Customs DEC staff at the Jinnah International Airport in pursuance of a credible information intercepted a consignment comprising eighty cartons of t-shirts being exported to Lagos, Nigeria by a Karachi-based exporter.<\/p>\n
A detailed examination of the consignment led to the recovery of 17 kilogrammes of fine quality heroin powder that was packed in 30 polythene packets, all wrapped up in t-shirts that were kept mixed in two out of 80 cartons to hoodwink the DEC examination staff.<\/p>\n
It is worth mentioning that the underground mafia involved in the drug smuggling always tries to exploit the extraordinary workload on weekends to materialise their ulterior motives.<\/p>\n
Consequent upon recovery and seizure of contraband narcotics, two accused persons Mehmood Ahmad and Ashraf Abbas representing the Clearing Agents and Exporter respectively were arrested and a prosecution case under the Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997 was registered against them.<\/p>\n
It may be mentioned here that the DEC staff earlier this month apprehended a Pakistani couple for their bid to smuggle 800 grammes of heroin to Colombo.<\/p>\n
The DEC staff also arrested another man, namely Anjum Farooqui, on charges of trying to smuggle 460 grammes of heroin, artfully concealed in a laptop. He was leaving for Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n
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