Hashish seized

Published July 20, 2002

QUETTA, July 19: The Pishin scouts, a wing of Frontier Corps of Balochistan seized 1140kg of drugs from a village in Chaman close to Pakistan Afghan border, some 150km north of here, on Friday.

“ We have seized huge quantity of drugs from border village valued over Rs 10 million,” Col Mohammad Sarwar, Commandant of Pishin Scouts told Dawn over telephone from Chaman.

It was the second big haul in the last four days.

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