KOHAT: The police foiled attempts of smuggling heroin and weapons by arresting a man and a woman here on Wednesday.

A team of Mohammad Riaz Shaheed police station, acting on a tip-off, stopped a passenger coach, and during search, asked a woman to disembark. Upon her frisking, they found more than one kilogrammes of heroin.

The smuggler was identified as Nazia Akram, a resident of Karachi. She was moved to court which sent her to jail. She admitted to trying to smuggle heroin from Khyber tribal district to Karachi.

In another strike, the Lachi police held a smuggler, Saeed Khan of Bannu, while trying to smuggle 26 pistols and 1,000 cartridges from Darra Adamkhel to his home town. The court handed him over to the police on physical remand.

Similarly, the Jarma police held a double-murder accused while he was fleeing to Peshawar from Karak in a passenger coach.

Meanwhile, the police arrested several suspects, including six Afghan refugees, during an operation in the cantonment, and seized a Kalashnikov, a repeater, two shotguns, four pistols, and 2,000 cartridges from them.

FUMIGATION SOUGHT: The civil society activists have demanded of the district administration to carry out fumigation in union council Shahpur to avoid any outbreak of dengue.

In a statement on Wednesday, they said the administration was paying all attention to the Lachi tehsil from where most of the patients had been reported, but was neglecting other parts where many cases had emerged.

They elder asked for fumigation in Tanda Dam area, Suleman Talaab, Teen Talaab, Mir Bashkhel and Fateh Khankhel areas.

Published in Dawn, October 24th, 2019