April 1, 2002	Monday	Muharram 17, 1423

JAKARTA, March 31: Two foreigners, one from Pakistan and another from Togo, have been killed during a police anti-narcotics operation here.

Muhammad Sabir Nizami alias Sunny Al Sani, a Pakistani, was shot dead by Togo national Hunter Jackson on the ground floor of an apartment building in South Jakarta late on Friday.

Police were using Nizami as bait in an operation to arrest Jackson, who is suspected of trafficking in heroin, but Jackson became suspicious when he met the Pakistani who was accompanied by two undercover policemen.

Jackson, who allegedly was attempting to sell 2.03 kilograms of heroin, shot and wounded one of the undercover policemen before shooting Nizami dead with four bullets.

Nizami, a key figure in a Pakistani-based drug syndicate, had been arrested two days earlier after one of his alleged couriers, a Nepalese, was caught trying to smuggle four kilograms of heroin.—AFP