QUETTA, April 13: The Balochistan Frontier Corps has seized about one ton of morphine and hashish from Chaman, a border town, and Chaghai area.

Official sources said drugs were smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan for its shipment to Iran through hilly areas of Balochistan.

Chaghai Militia, a wing of the Frontier Corps, on a tip-off raided Girdi Jungle area, once a big refugee camp close to Afghan border in Chaghai district, and seized 500kg of morphine on Saturday evening.

“Morphine packed in plastic packets was dumped underground in an abandoned house,” a senior officer of the Frontier Corps told Dawn on Sunday and added that consignment was brought into Pakistan from Helmand province of Afghanistan, which is very famous for poppy cultivation and drugs manufacturing.

But no one was arrested as the armed men guarding the morphine consignment escaped from the scene without offering any resistance.

Pishin Scouts, another wing of the Frontier Corps, also conducted a raid on Saturday in Boghara top and Murda Karez area near Chaman and seized around 497kg of hashish.

“The drug was loaded on donkeys,” Pishin Scouts Commandant Col Sarwar said.

It was smuggled into Chaman from an Afghan area to be shifted to Quetta under the cover of hilly area.

In this raid also smugglers fled leaving the donkeys and drug, but after a brief exchange of fire, the sources said.