NAWABSHAH: A trailer truck meant to enter Karachi has been seized Wednesday by the police near the Qazi Ahmad area after it appeared it was smuggling 7 maunds and 12 kg (total of 292 kilograms) of charas (hashish or cannabis) inside it into Karachi.
The amount of the seized drugs today translates to about millions of rupees, police said. The drug load hidden in the trailer truck was meant to be smuggled into Karachi. After the confiscation of the trailer with drugs and arrest of the four personnel within the trailer truck, the police have booked the case.
Earlier yesterday, in the crackdown against smuggled betel nuts by the Anti-Smuggling Organization of the Collectorate of Customs Enforcement, the smuggled goods worth 130m were found during the last 30 days. According to details ASO shared, a loaded trolley carried 33,950kgs of betel nuts, smuggled into Pakistan, and was intercepted near Metroville, SITE Area on Sep. 02, 2021.–Agencies
