QUETTA, May 25: The Frontier Corps on Friday seized a huge quantity of drugs and ammunition during raids conducted in the Chagai district of Balochistan. FC troops had moved into the Shabian area close to the Pakistan-Iran border on a tip-off that drug and arms were being smuggled into the country from Afghanistan’s Helmand province, sources said.

The troops cordoned off the area and launched a search operation during which they found 990kg morphine, 200kg hashish and a large number of rockets dumped in mountains.

No arrest was made as armed men guarding the consignment escaped across the border.

A vehicle was also intercepted in Nukondi area from which 144,000 morphine injections were recovered. The driver of the vehicle also escaped.