Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 47 kilograms of cocaine hidden through imported containers at Port Mohammad Bin Qasim (PMBQ) in Karachi. ANF said that this was the biggest operation in the country’s history in which a large quantity of cocaine, worth millions of dollars in the international market, was seized.

Anti-Narcotics Force Intelligence and Risk Assessment declared seven containers as ‘suspicious’, which were ready to depart for Gujranwala. During a thorough examination of the imported containers, ANF personnel recovered cocaine, which was tactfully hidden in a container. ANF recovered this cocaine by showing outstanding and professional performance.

ANF is discharging its duties on ports, dry ports, highways, inter-provincial roads, and airports in an effective manner. ANF is determined to root out the menace of narcotics from our country. Meanwhile, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has conducted six operations across the country, arresting four suspects, including a woman, and seizing as many as 304.33 kilograms of narcotics valued at over Rs786 million.

According to an ANF spokesperson, the operations were carried out around educational institutions as well as in several cities as part of ongoing efforts to curb drug trafficking and protect students from narcotics abuse. In Islamabad, ANF personnel recovered 70 psychotropic tablets, weighing 30 grams, from an accused near a hotel in the G-9 sector.  In another operation, 1.2 kilograms of hashish were seized from a woman near Shamkot Toll Plaza in Khanewal district.

The arrested suspects confessed to supplying drugs to students of educational institutions, the spokesperson said. In separate domestic operations, two kilograms of ice were recovered from a truck near a park on Ring Road in Peshawar, leading to the arrest of the accused.Cases have been registered against the arrested suspects under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, and further investigations are underway, the spokesperson added.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)