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Trial of alleged Czech drug smuggler completed at Lahore court

AP Published January 9, 2019
21-year-old Tereza Hluskova pleaded innocent and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. —AP
21-year-old Tereza Hluskova pleaded innocent and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. —AP
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A court in Lahore has completed the trial of a Czech woman arrested last year on charges of attempting to smuggle heroin from Pakistan to Abu Dhabi.

During Tuesday's brief court hearing, 21-year-old Tereza Hluskova pleaded innocent. A judge will announce a verdict before the end of January and she faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Since her arrest in 2018, Hluskova has told investigators that she came to Pakistan to work as a model but that someone put narcotics into her luggage. She was arrested as she tried to board a flight for Abu Dhabi.

The woman claims she is a model and Czech diplomats have provided her legal assistance.

Pakistani authorities often make arrests of both Pakistanis and foreigners for transporting narcotics.

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Abbasshah
Jan 09, 2019 12:40am
The original gang must also be nabbed.
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N_Saq
Jan 09, 2019 12:48am
As per earlier news at the time of her arrest she was carrying 9kg of heroine, which if true means if she succeeded getting the package out, she would have been a millionaire.
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Truthhurts
Jan 09, 2019 12:50am
She looks happy.
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Life
Jan 09, 2019 12:56am
Just leave her. Find the culprit who sold it to her or put narcotics in her luggage.
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Zulfeqar Rizvi.Canada.
Jan 09, 2019 12:56am
I don't believe she is innocent.
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MALIK
Jan 09, 2019 01:33am
She is undoubtedly a model. I am sure someone had used her like our own home grown model i.e Aayan.
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Asif khan
Jan 09, 2019 01:34am
The bigger question that court should ask the investigative team from where and who provided the narcotics to her....??
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Zx
Jan 09, 2019 01:52am
Let's see if you are as good of a model as ayan ali and get yourself out of this.
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Rashid
Jan 09, 2019 02:20am
Local model was captured red handed and allowed to leave the country so why can't she?
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Ali Maria
Jan 09, 2019 02:36am
She definitely seems innocent, Girls cannot do these things alone, She must be given fine or something, she already spent two years in Jail. Dig and reach to the culprits not poor young girl. She does not even know English & Urdu. She definitely Deserve relaxation relief at least now. Jails should have CCTV and proper facilities too. Including heater and Air coolers etc. People are not animal. Plus no one in the world put people in Jail before court hearing . Change this 18th century barbarian law. Mentally distory human mindset. It’s Totally against the Human Right Act 2011
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Newborn
Jan 09, 2019 02:36am
She looks 41.
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KHK
Jan 09, 2019 02:56am
Name one country that does not arrest foreigners for smuggling narcotics. Simple excuse that someone else did it will not help. Poor beauty.
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jaredlee007
Jan 09, 2019 03:05am
NO ONE is above the law! May justice be served.
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Shampee
Jan 09, 2019 03:35am
wow, Another innocent.
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Shampee
Jan 09, 2019 03:35am
what a beautiful last line, Pakistani authorities often make arrests BUT set the free.
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Iqbal Khan
Jan 09, 2019 03:56am
She was a drug mule and offering money to girls in her town for same.
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Right
Jan 09, 2019 04:02am
She is going home as it look from her face.
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Omar
Jan 09, 2019 05:04am
Lock her up and throw away the keys.
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Ali
Jan 09, 2019 05:30am
Tezera Hluskova the 21 year old Czech citizen was stupid to be smuggling drugs to Dubai. If she is convicted by the court, she should be sent to her country for completing her sentence. She has learned her lesson, and it would be a humanitarian and compassionate gesture to send her back. Holding her in a Pakistani prison is tough enough for hardened criminals / murders, she would not be able to survive the unbearable hardship. The people of Pakistan ask for her forgiveness.
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Dr Salaria AA
Jan 09, 2019 06:13am
The poor east Europeans think that they are exempt from all laws of local countries .... because they think they are a part of Europe and hence more economically developed and hence more politically powerful!! She is lucky ... if she was arrested in Dubai or UAE it would mean the death penalty.
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Zak
Jan 09, 2019 06:29am
“ I was walking and when I opened my briefcase ,someone had left 500 tablets of ecstasy. I was not ecstatic. I am innocent”. All heard before, try a new one.
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Dr Ahmad - Melbourne
Jan 09, 2019 07:19am
Let her go home. She done nothing wrong as someone else framed her putting narcotics in her baggage.
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Gordon D. Walker
Jan 09, 2019 07:49am
So beautiful! So young! So innocent... Gordon D. Walker Canada
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Naveed
Jan 09, 2019 08:48am
If a Pakistani woman had arrested with 9kg heroine in Czech republic , would they leave her ?
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Sameer
Jan 09, 2019 09:18am
Outrageous. What a fabrication. If she is innocent, then so is Kevin Spacey.
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