[Dawn] Pakistain said Friday it had seized one of its largest ever hauls of heroin, impounding 125 kilograms (275 pounds) of the narcotic worth an estimated $13.75 million on the international market.The seizure is the largest since May last year when the authorities seized 375 kilograms of the drug.
The authorities examined a refrigerated container at Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
port and found bags of heroin concealed by solution tape and balloons.
| I had no idea heroin needed to be refrigerated. You learn something new every day. |
"We have placed in long-term storage
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
the clearing agent and one of his employees," Shah said.
Officials said the heroin was smuggled from neighbouring Afghanistan through Pakistain's northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
"This is the second biggest heroin seizure in the history of Pakistain,"another customs official Qamar Thalho said, putting the value of the stash at $0.55 million on the local market and $13.75 million on the international market.
He said the narcotic hidden in a container was booked for Malaysia.
Pakistain has more than four million drug addicts in a population of nearly 180 million, according to figures compiled by the ANF, which is responsible for investigating and prosecuting drug offences.
Opium poppy is grown on the Pakistain-Afghanistan border, a region infamous for Taliban and al Qaeda-linked strongholds, and branded the most dangerous place in the world for Americans by US President Barack Obama
The Cambridge police acted stupidly...