Non-custom paid painkillers worth billions seized in year’s biggest operation in city

In a major operation, the Sindh Narcotics Control Department has seized 3.6 million illegal and unregistered painkiller tablets worth billions of rupees and arrested two accused.

The provincial minister for excise, taxation and narcotics control, Mukesh Kumar Chawla, while briefing journalists at the office of the DG Narcotics Control Sindh on Tuesday, said the operation took place two days ago during a snap checking near the Sassi Toll Plaza.

He said a vehicle loaded with illegal and unregistered drugs and the first laboratory test of the tablets was conducted, the reports of which made it clear that a large number of ice crystals and cocaine could also be produced from the seized drugs. Chawla said the illegal drugs were being transferred to a warehouse in Korangi, which a team of the narcotics Control department raided, but the drugs in the warehouse had been removed before the raid.