Man carrying heroin-filled capsules in his stomach held in Peshawar.

PESHAWAR -- The excise department's narcotics control wing on Monday arrested a man and recovered heroin-filled capsules from his stomach.

The department had received information about a person having reached Haji Camp bus terminal in order to travel to the federal capital.

'We started tracing the man and found him near Haji Camp bus terminal,' a senior excise official said, adding that the accused, Mohammad Akram, a resident of Chiniot, Punjab, planned to travel to Islamabad and then to the United Kingdom.

The official said during...

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