QUETTA, Dec 8: Anti Narcotics Force and Frontier Corps have seized over 2.3 tons of drugs including morphine and Hashish from three areas of Balochistan.

“The seizure included, 1.7 metric tons of morphine which was smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan,” Deputy Director ANF Balochistan and FC sources told this correspondent on Sunday.

The sources said that the ANF troops launched an operation on a tip-off in Chagai area close to the Pakistan-Afghan border on Thursday night some 400km west of Quetta, and after heavy exchange of fire with drug traffickers, recovered 1002kg morphine.

The consignment was brought from Afghanistan to be smuggled to Turkey via Iran, ANF sources said adding that morphine was hidden in the mountains.

Two drug-traffickers sustained bullet injuries during the exchange of fire, but managed to escape.

In another raid on Thursday night in Mand area of Makran division near the Pakistan-Iran border, ANF troops recovered 600kgs of fine quality hashish.

The smugglers carrying the hashish consignment resisted with full force and fought a fierce gunbattle with the ANF troops.

However, the ANF troops foiled the smugglers’ attempt to take hashish to Iran. After a heavy exchange of fire the smugglers disappeared into the mountains.

According to official sources, Chagai Militia, a wing of Frontier Corps (Civil Armed Force responsible for border security) had seized 700kg of morphine from Girdi Jangle, an old Afghan refugee camp area in Dalbindin area of Chagai district.

“Morphine had been dumped in Gardi Jangle,” Col Tahir Shah Commandant Chagai Militia said adding that the Chagai Militia troops raided the area late on Thursday evening.

No arrests were reported.