KARACHI: Pakistan Customs Preventive has recovered a large quantity of smuggled “illegal” Indian medicines worth 25 million during an operation in Karachi on Saturday.
According to a customs spokesperson, on a tip-off, a warehouse in Karachi’s Saddar area was raided, from where the drugs were recovered. The business community had reported the presence of the medicines in the warehouse, the spokesperson said.
Prior to the raid, according to the spokesperson, a formal search warrant was obtained from the judicial magistrate. Moreover, a case been registered against the suspects and legal proceedings have started.
Earlier, Officials of the Customs Intelligence Squad had foiled a drug trafficking bid to Punjab and recovered 32 kilograms of hashish from a vehicle at the at Hala Naka near Shaheed Benazirabad Flyover, Hyderabad.
A customs spokesperson informed that acting on a tip-off, the officials set up a checkpoint at Shaheed Benazirabad Flyover and started searching vehicles.
A huge amount of Hashish was being smuggled from the Tando Adam to Hyderabad under the coverage of Guava Fruits packed in wooden boxes loaded on the vehicle.
One of the staff members stopped the suspected vehicle, however, the driver managed to escape taking advantage of darkness and traffic. After which, the vehicle was taken into custody.
The customs officials recovered 32 slabs of Hashish (Charas) wrapped with green plastic, each slab weighing 01 kilograms. The current market value of the recovered smuggled Hashish is approximately Rs.3.2 Million.
