Excise Mardan seizes 122kg hashish, 2kg opium near Nowshera.

PESHAWAR -- Subsequent upon the instructions issued by Secretary Excise, Ehsan Ullah and DG Excise, Akmal Khan Khattak to curb the menace of narcotics, the department has geared up its actions against narcotics dealers, smugglers and their facilitators across the province.

According to the spokesman Excise on Monday, in the first action, a team headed by Director (Narcotics Control), Aftab uddin, Excise and Taxation Officer Zahid Iqbal Khan, Circle Officer, Sayed Naveed Jamal of Mardan Region, SHO Excise Mardan Muhammad Riaz, Additional SHO Azlan Aslam and Muhammad Frooq recovered 124 kilogram narcotics from a car on GT Road Nowshera.

The Circle Officer had received information regarding smuggling of narcotics from Peshawar to Punjab. The excise team intercepted the car on Peshawar-Nowshera...