PESHAWAR, Oct 17: A courier company has detected a large quantity of narcotics in two consignments booked for England, sources told Dawn here on Thursday.

The courier service, Technologies Courier Service (TCS), last week on suspicion called the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) to check a suitcase of clothes booked for England from Peshawar.

The ANF team during the checking recovered 2.4kg of fine quality heroin concealed in the secret cavities of the suitcase.

One Amjad, a resident of Faqirabad, by using a fake identity card copy with fabricated name tried for the second time in the last two weeks to send the heroin to England, the sources said.

Two weeks ago, the same person had tried to send the brown powder from the TCS office in Nowshera. But the courier company also foiled that attempt and informed the ANF  to search the suitcase, which had almost the same type of clothes. This time more than one kilogram of heroin was recovered.

The ANF called a meeting of all the senior officials of courier services here on Thursday for the purpose of intensifying efforts to curb narcotics smuggling through courier services.

At the meeting, the ANF practically demonstrated how the smugglers could attempt to send narcotics abroad and instructed them the way of detecting them.

This was an alarming situation and all the courier companies must do more to check the luggage before sending it abroad, said Col Zafar, a senior official of the ANF.

Expressing his doubt over the involvement of some courier companies workers in the narcotics smuggling, Col Zafar said that he had asked all the companies high-ups to keep the record of its employees and verify their past records from the police before giving them a job.

“I cannot rule out the involvement of some courier companies involvement  in the smuggling as they know how  to  send consignments abroad by using illegal methods,” he opined.