Karachi police arrest couple in international drug network
East police say the two received narcotics sent by bus from Quetta and arranged their onward shipment to Australia, where a ringleader sold them.
KARACHI: Police in the city's east arrested a married couple described as key operatives of an international narcotics supply network, seizing narcotics concealed in slippers and two packets of charas in a raid in the Sohrab Goth area, East police said.
According to Express News, the raid near Chakar Hotel was carried out by the New Sabzi Mandi police post on a tip-off. A spokesperson for East police said the operation followed instructions from the DIG East Zone and the SSP East and was supervised by the SDPO Sohrab Goth and the SHO of Site Super Highway.
Police identified the two as Ali Raza, son of Safdar Ali, and his wife, Maryam. A bag recovered from the couple contained narcotics hidden inside 14 slippers along with two packets of charas, the spokesperson said. The police statement did not give the weight or the estimated value of the drugs seized.
In preliminary questioning, the couple said they had narcotics brought from Quetta to Karachi by bus through a man named Shoaib, Express News reported. On arrival in Karachi, Ali Raza and his wife would receive the consignment and arrange for it to be sent on to Australia, according to the account police gave of the interrogation.
Police said the network's main ringleader in Australia received the drugs and sold them, and that the proceeds of the sales were transferred back to operatives in Pakistan.
A case has been registered against the two under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act. Police said investigations were continuing and that further operations were under way against other members of the supply network and its connections.
Neither report said exactly when the raid took place, or where in Australia the network's operations were based.
UrduPoint also reported the arrests, describing the couple as alleged operatives of a drug supply network. Both accounts centre on the same East police operation and the same two suspects, and neither outlet reported any figure for the quantity of narcotics recovered.
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