26kg narcotics recovered in ANF raids

LAHORE: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has intensified its operations against drug traffickers across Pakistan, conducting nine successful raids and arresting six suspects.

The operations led to the recovery of 26.437 kilograms of various drugs, with an estimated street value exceeding Rs4.249 million. ANF teams recovered 500 grams of opium from a suspect near a university in Islamabad. In another operation near Punjab Chowk, Mansehra, 330 grams of hashish and 13 grams of methamphetamine (ice) were seized. The arrested individuals confessed to supplying narcotics to students.

At Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport, officials seized 864 grams of heroin and 25 grams of clonazepam pills from a passenger’s luggage bound for Dubai. At the Bacha Khan International Airport, 95 grams of ice-filled capsules were recovered from the abdomen of a passenger traveling to Doha. In a separate case at the Islamabad International Airport, 360 grams of ice were recovered in 50 capsules from a passenger headed to Dubai.