Smuggled medicines seized

Published January 29, 2009

QUETTA, Jan 28: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) seized a large quantity of medicines smuggled from Iran and India here on Wednesday night.

According to sources, an FIA team, on a tip-off, raided a warehouse on the Masjid road and seized the medicines worth millions of rupees.

“A man, identified as Abdul Zahir, was taken into custody and the godown was sealed,” Akbar Baloch, the director of FIA (Balochistan zone), told Dawn. The arrested man told investigators that he supplied these medicines throughout the province, including Quetta.

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