KOHAT: The police seized a good quantity of hashish, heroin and opium during checking of vehicles on the Indus Highway and the Mianwali Road and arrested four inter-provincial smugglers on Saturday.

The police stopped a passenger coach and seized four kilogrammes of hashish hidden in its doors. Hashmat Orakzai, an alleged smuggler, was arrested.

Another police team recovered 400 grams of heroin from Khan Akbar of Khyber district, who was carrying it to Karachi.

Similarly, the police stopped a bus at Muslimabad checkpost and recovered one kilogramme of hashish from Shah Afzal of Khyber tribal district.

Meanwhile, the Shakardarra police signalled a truck loaded with bricks to stop on the Mianwali Road, and recovered one kilogramme of hashish and opium from under its front seat. Alleged smuggler, Jehangir Khan of Kamal Khel, was arrested.

All the accused were presented in courts, which sent them to prison.

Meanwhile, the Jarma police claimed to have solved the honour killing case of a girl in Sorgul by arresting her four brothers.

SHO Qismat Khan told journalists that the police got information that a girl had been killed by her brothers in the name of honour and that they were digging her grave to bury her, showing that she had died a natural death.

He said the girl’s body covered in the coffin was retrieved and sent to the women and children hospital where doctors confirmed that she had been choked to death.

Later, the police arrested the four brothers of the deceased, presented them in court, where they admitted to killing their sister in name of honour. Afterwards, they were sent to jail.

Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2019