CIA police thwart major drug smuggling attempt.

Byline: Tahir Niaz

ISLAMABAD -- The Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) of Islamabad Police has thwarted a major drugs smuggling attempt and seized huge cache of drugs, liquor and ice, a police spokesman said on Thursday.

He said that, on the special orders of IGP Islamabad Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan, DIG (Operations) Waqar Uddin Syed has directed all the police officers to accelerate their efforts against drug dealers/smugglers and curb the menace from the capital.

Following these directions, SP (Investigation) Dr. Syed Mustafa Tanveer constituted special anti-drug police team under supervision of DSP (CIA) Hakim Khan along with Sub-Inspector Muhammad Inam-Ullah, ASIs Aamir Hayat, Safdar Hussain Gondal and others.

The police team, during special checking against drug dealers in Sector G-13, tried to stop a suspicious vehicle. The suspects hit the police team with vehicle in which two police officers got severe injuries and the accused later tried to flee from the scene. The police team again stopped the vehicle but the culprits opened fire on them and succeeded in fleeing away from the scene.

The police team searched the vehicle and recovered 39 bottles of liquor, 6.225kg hashish, 1.5kg heroin, 35 gram ice, two 30-bore pistols and one rifle along with ammunition. The escaped culprits were...

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