Six smugglers held in Kohat

KOHAT: The police foiled a bid to smuggle drugs and ammunition, arresting six alleged smugglers and eight gamblers in separate actions here on Sunday, official sources said.

They said that acting on a tip-off, SHO Muhammad Riaz Shaheed Police Station, Islamuddin, along with a police party set up a checkpoint near Toll Plaza on Kohat-Indus Highway and started checking vehicles. They added that during the search, the police recovered a total of 4800 grams of cannabis from the hidden cavities of the car. Two drug smugglers identified as Abdul Haleem of Bara and Faiz Muhammad n, a resident of Razgir Banda in Kohat, were arrested.

A case had been registered against them at the Mohammad Riaz Shaheed Police Station. In another operation at the same checkpoint, the police recovered a total of 3000 rounds of 9mm gun from Akhtar Ali, a resident of Bannu. Yet in another action, a heavy contingent of police raided a gambling den at the room of a local resident named Waqar Shah in Bahadur Colony and arrested eight alleged gamblers.