Iran hands over bodies of ‘drug smugglers’ to Pakistan

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QUETTA: Iranian authorities handed over the bodies of five alleged drug smugglers of Pakistan-origin to Pakistani authorities on Friday.

The five along with their three Iranian accomplices were killed in a gunbattle with Iran’s security forces near the Pak-Iran border on Sept 6.

Iranian authorities had claimed that the men were involved in drug smuggling.

Also read: Six Pakistanis among nine ‘drug smugglers’ killed by Iranian forces

Official sources said Iranian border authorities brought five coffins at the Taftan border and handed them over to a senior official of Levies Force.

A senior official of the Taftan administration said the bodies were handed over to relatives of the deceased after legal formalities.

The men identified as Bismillah Khan, Sirajuddin, Zahoor Ahmed, Mir Khan and Farimroz hailed from Taftan town in the Chagai district.

Published in Dawn, September 12th, 2015

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Shahid Usa

Sep 12, 2015 08:13am

Remember what Baba said ,stay away from drugs

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Rohit Sharma

Sep 12, 2015 08:59am

A message to all drug mafiya that if you do this, you will be punished hard.

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Hameed Ajmal Sheikh

Sep 12, 2015 09:13am

It is good that Iranian Forces are not corrupt to allow these drug barons to do Drug smuggling nd earn a lot of money.It is highly unfortunate that Pakistan Custom people do not feel ashamed how these smugglers went across the border with drugs.They should be caught and removed from services.

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arzu

Sep 12, 2015 09:25am

good move - Iran...world should be free of drugs

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Zulfiqar Ali Keeryo

Sep 12, 2015 10:50am

The illegal ways of doing business must be eliminated. otherwise It would make the image of the country bad at international level. it is the responsibility of the concerned authority to strive to stop such types of activities and so on.

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malik humayoun

Sep 12, 2015 10:59am

Good move same action may be apply on all smuggling, like Iranian oil and cloth, continuous smuggling from Iran to Pakistan. there is required to join working of both neighbor country to prevent all types of illegal trade movement.

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Ample reverence 4 KSA & Pak Army

Sep 12, 2015 05:37pm

Drugs traffickers who are spreading poison and envenoming the generation, must be dealt with same fashion on every scrape of the world indiscriminately.

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Ample reverence 4 KSA & Pak Army

Sep 12, 2015 07:14pm

Now happy than why lament over beheading, when it takes place in KSA transparently? Its more harmful than even poison, poison kills individuals but it kills families and generation.

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