MIANWALI: Police claim to have seized a huge quantity of 30kg heroin from a car at Fakharabad check post on the Mianwali-Talagang Road and arrested two alleged smugglers, including a woman.

District Police Officer Mumtaz Ahmed Dev said the police intercepted a car and found two packets of heroin weighing two kilo each from the man and the woman. On complete search of the car, the police seized 26kg heroin that was concealed in its various parts.

The car driver was identified as Muhammad Waqar of Rawalpindi and woman as Sumbal Bibi of Dhudial, Chakwal district. The couple was arrested and booked under the narcotics act.

The DPO claimed it was the biggest cache of heroin in the history of Mianwali. He said both the smugglers were on the way to Karachi.

He said that during a campaign against illegal weapons, a police party, headed by Organised Crime DSP Rana Muhammad Anwar, conducted a raid at Wandha Shaho Khelanwala in Saddar police limits and seized weapons, including two rifles, seven magazines, seven pistols and 1,859 cartridges, from Muhammad Nasim of Shahokhelanwala.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2019