Bid to smuggle Rs20m heroin foiled at airport

Personnel of the Pakistan Customs Collectorate at Jinnah International Airport have foiled a bid to smuggle Rs20 million heroin.

Syed Irfan Ali, a spokesman for the Customs, said the Pakistan Customs’ Airport Collectorate took action after Collector Customs Airport Adeem Khan had received a tip-off that an attempt would be made to smuggle heroin worth Rs20 million from Karachi to Malaysia.

Khan issued special instructions to Additional Collector Airport Faisal Khan to thwart this possible drug smuggling bid. He directed deployment of additional personnel in plain clothes inside and outside the International Departure Lounge.

On Sunday evening, the staff stopped a passenger named Mohammad Usman, who was going to Malaysia on Batak Air flight OD-136, and asked him if there was any prohibited item in his luggage. However, the passenger denied the presence of any such thing.

Some suspicious images appeared in the bottom of the suitcase, which was taken to the examination counter, where two kilogrammes of high quality heroin, was found hidden the suitcase. A case has been registered under the Customs and the Narcotics Act.