PESHAWAR, March 27: Police on Monday arrested two drug carriers and seized 750 kilograms of hashish from two trucks that they had stopped at a check-post near the town of Bara in the Khyber Agency.

The drivers of the two vehicles were also arrested.

Police had erected barricades on a road near the Bara Qadeem check-post after receiving information from a unnamed source that some criminals would attempt to smuggle in narcotics through the route.

SUSPENDED: Chief of City Police (CCP) Habib Rehman on Monday suspended two clerks of the Peshawar Police Lines on a complaint of one Naseer Khan that the clerks, Zaheerullah and Faridullah, had ignored his complaints and demanded bribe from him.