January 3, 2002	Thursday	Shawwal 18, 1422

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QUETTA, Jan 2: The Pakistan Customs and the Makran Scouts seized on Wednesday a huge quantity of drugs and illegal arms and ammunition from Chaghai and Gajjo areas near the border with Iran.

On a tip-off, a team of Customs officials, headed by the assistant collector, preventive, Waheed Marwat, and the deputy superintendent, Saeed Baloch, raided the Amri area and seized arms and ammunition.

The officials claimed that the arms and ammunition, including 2,000 rounds of 12.7mm anti-aircraft gun, 290 rounds of 14.5mm anti-aircraft gun and one klashnikov rifle, had been smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan for terrorist activities. The drugs seized were 27kg morphine and nine kilogrammes opium.

Meanwhile, the Makran Scouts conducted a raid on Gajjo area and seized 53kg hashish, three klashnikovs and one rifle. The hashish and illegal weapons were said to have been dumped in a ditch.

The Customs officials also seized a huge quantity of engines, foreign cloths and tea from a truck coming from Chaman. The truck driver escaped from the scene.