ISLAMABAD: 2 drug smugglers arrested

Published November 9, 2001

ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Thursday held two Nigerians on the charge of drug-smuggling.

ANF officials stopped the Nigerians, Nadu Boosi and Uzoh, at Islamabad Airport and seized several packets of heroin in their possession.

They admitted that they had been trying to smuggle these drugs abroad and that they also had many heroin capsules in their stomach. They were taken to Pims for recovering the capsules.—PPI

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