KOHAT: Customs personnel seized over seven maunds (over 260kg) of narcotics allegedly being smuggled to Karachi from Afghanistan, from a container at the Friendship Tunnel here on Saturday.

The personnel stopped a container at their checkpost on the Indus Highway for checking. The search resulted in recovery of over seven maunds of hashish, more than 3kg of opium and two pistols.

Naeem Bokhari, the spokesman for the department, told Dawn that the driver of the vehicle managed to escape.

The consignment as well as the container was confiscated and shifted to the Kohat Salt House, where a case was registered against an unknown gang of smugglers.

Published in Dawn, August 20th, 2017