Liquor, gutka worth millions of rupees seized in two raids.

LARKANA -- Police recovered huge stocks of gutka and wine worth millions of rupees in two raids on drug dens in its renewed drive against narcotics and drug peddlers in the city on Saturday.

ASP city Atiqur Rehman along with Market police station SHO Sartaj Jagirani raided a go-down in fish market and unearthed huge quantity of gutka packed in over 20 gunny bags. The contraband stocked in the rented go-down was supplied inside and outside Larkana, said police.

The ASP told journalists that the value of the confiscated gutka was estimated at over Rs1 million. The suspected drug peddlers Afzal Tagar, owner of the go-down and his employees, had escaped after they had sensed danger, said sources. However, police went after the drug suspects to arrest them.

In another raid led by the ASP city and SHO of Dari police station, Ubedur Rehman Dharejo, on a house owned by one Faheem Mugheri police recovered 32 cartons of wine and beer.

The market value of the seized drugs was estimated at around Rs300,000, police said. As usual, the suspect along with his accomplices had slipped away before the raid and police claimed to go after them to round them up.

In yet another case, Dari police arrested one Saeed Shaikh and recovered 1037 bottles of wine from his possession. Police were probing all three cases to reach all members of the gang, said police.

JUI-F accuses police of forming nexus with criminals

Muhabbat Ali Khuhro, general secretary of Larkana district chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) said in his statement hailed police action against drug traffickers but alleged that police itself were involved in the crime.

He claimed that police were hand in glove with the drug traffickers at different levels. He urged IGP Sindh to take action against the black sheep in the force who were bringing a bad name to police...