| Six tons of hash? Like, wow, man! |
PESHAWAR: Custom officials on Monday seized 6,640 kilogrammes of hashish, with an estimated market value of Rs 200 million, from an oil tanker near Aman Garh area in Nowshera district. A customs department spokesman said that officials had acted on a tip-off made to Collector Custom Sher Zawaz Khan and had deployed personnel along GT Road to seize the contraband goods. Customs officials stationed near Aman Gahr Bridge signalled to the driver of the oil tanker (TKA 924) that he should stop. The driver, however, ignored the warning and accelerated the speed of the vehicle. Customs officials then pursued the tanker until the driver eventually pulled over. Two drug carriers then opened fire and fled the scene. Customs official Rahim Dad Khan said that the culprits disappeared into the bushes after open firing. Khan said that the drug cache would have sold for more than Rs 200 million on Peshawar's black market, while this price would have doubled if it had been sold in Punjab.