2 Pakistanis held for drug smuggling

Published January 19, 2015
.—Reuters/File
.—Reuters/File

RIYADH: Saudi and United Arab Emirates security agents have disrupted a heroin trafficking network, seizing large amounts of the drug and arresting two Pakistani nationals, interior ministry in Riyadh said on Sunday.

Also read: Pakistani beheaded in Saudi Arabia

The gang specialised “in the smuggling of raw heroin from the United Arab Emirates to the kingdom,” the ministry said in a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency.

Published in Dawn, January 19th, 2015

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