ISLAMABAD: A suspected drug supplier to students of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has been arrested by the capital police.

The police said on a tip-off Secretariat Police Station House Officer (SHO) Shabir Tanoli mounted surveillance at the university and when the suspect came there he was arrested.

The police said heroin wrapped in 300 sachets was recovered from the suspect.

During the interrogation, the suspect confessed to selling drugs to the students, the police claimed.

The suspect told the police that he sold each sachet containing a few grams of heroin to the students for Rs400 to Rs1,000.

He bought the drug from different parts of the capital and also identified some of the dealers from who he purchased the narcotics.

A senior police officer told Dawn that during the last one month over a dozen suspected drug peddlers had been arrested.

The drug peddlers got easy access to the university during study hours and at night.

“It is difficult to intercept them and regulate their movement in and around the university.”

He said the Secretariat police had been tasked to control drug peddling in and around the campus along with the security guards of the university.

The faculty members of the university are also being approached for their assistance.

Besides, a strategy is being prepared to counter drug peddling and usage on the campus and in this regard the university administration will be taken on board, the officer added.

Conducting snap checking at hostels, canteens and other food outlets in the university is also under consideration, he said.

The students of the university would also be recruited as volunteers to keep an eye on drug peddlers and addicts.

Checkposts are being established around the university to restrict the movement of unconcerned people to the university, the officer stated.

Published in Dawn, October 5th, 2018