Smuggler gets life term

Published October 26, 2007

TAXILA, Oct 25: A drug smuggler was awarded on Thursday life imprisonment and a fine of Rs2 million for smuggling 50 kilograms of chars.

According to the prosecution, Taxila police arrested Nisarullah, a resident of Peshawar, while trying to smuggle 50 kilograms of chars from the NWFP to Punjab in 2002.

HOUSE LOOTED: A group of ten outlaws looted a house at gunpoint at Model Town, in the jurisdiction of Wah Cantonment police station.

Kafeel Khan reported to the police that the culprits locked the family members in a room and fled away with Rs0.8 million in cash, 48 tola gold and cellphones.—Correspondent

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