Motorway police official held for narcotic smuggling

PESHAWAR—The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) Sunday claimed to have recovered 162 kg charas, 4.8 kg opium and 1 kg heroin from the car of senior Motorway police officer smuggling it to the Punjab province.
According to a press release issued here on Sunday the ANF, NWFP force commander Brig Mohammad Najmul Hassan Jamil on a tip-off that an inter provincial smuggling gang was trying to pass narcotics from NWFP to the Punjab province through Motorway, who ordered cordon-off road at Pabbi.
The force during checking stopped the car on GT road at Pabbi bazaar in district Nowshera, the driver identified himself as Akhtar Iqbal Khattak and senior patrolling officer Motorway and tried to pass his car without checking.
The police, however, turned down the Motorway officer’s request and on search recovered 162 kg charas, 4.8 kg opium and 1 kg heroin concealed in the car’s. The force arrested him, who later identified himself as resident of Pir Sabak area of district Nowshera and Inspector Motorway.
In preliminary investigation the motorway senior petrol officer is performing his duty at Jandola Sector North 1, and before it he had smuggled narcotics several times to other provinces.
Jamil said further investigation was underway and arrest of other motorway officials involved in narcotics smuggling was expected.—INP