RAWALPINDI: The Airport Security Force (ASF) foiled a drug smuggling attempt at Islamabad International Airport and arrested one person on Thursday.

According to an official, 1.6 kilogrammes heroin was seized from a passenger’s hand bag when the security check-in for a flight to Doha was underway.

The ASF staff, upon observing the passenger acting suspiciously, asked him for baggage search. During search, the ASF staff recovered 1.9 kgs of ice heroin from his hand bag and later handed him over to the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) for further legal proceeding.

Earlier on Tuesday, ANF foiled an attempt to smuggle 760 grams of heroin filled in capsules and arrested another passenger at the airport. The seizure was made when the check-in of passengers for a Sharjah-bound flight (PK-181) was underway at the airport. The passenger, a resident of Peshawar, revealed that he was carrying 97 heroin-filled capsules in his stomach. He was detained and a case was registered against him by the ANF.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2022