LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) team deputed at Allama Iqbal International has recovered huge quantity of ketamine and other drugs from two passengers.
Official sources told Customs Today that Collector Airport Basit Mehmood Abbasi received credible information that some passengers are trying to smuggle drugs. He immediately directed customs team to enhance checking of the passengers.
The customs team on suspicion searched two passengers who were leaving for Kula Lumpur and recovered huge quantities of drugs.
The sources said that the passengers Nazir Ali and Jawad Bilal were carrying sleeping pills and 195 kilogram ketamine.
They said that the ketamine was packed in dry fruits packets. Both passengers were leaving to Kula Lumpur on flight D 132. The passengers were off loaded and registering a case.
It is necessary to mention here that Customs Collector Airport Basit Mehmood Abbasi has already directed anti-smuggling squads deputed at the airport to adopt zero tolerance policy towards smuggling.