PESHAWAR - The police on Friday foiled a bid to smuggle huge quantity of narcotics here and arrested 11 suspects while confiscating the drugs and a vehicle.
The spokesman of Excise Department said that narcotics was being smuggled in a truck loaded with tissue papers, adding that tissue consignment was loaded from a factory in Tajabad area here.
The Excise police recovered 12kg of opium and 785 grams of ice from a mini Mazda truck number LXL 6715, the spokesman said and added that the driver of the vehicle Alam Khan, s/o Ghulam Muhammad, resident of Abakhel, District Mianwali, was arrested on the spot.
During the initial investigation, the driver said that the consignment of tissue papers was loaded by a person Masudur Rahman from a factory in Industrial Estate here for Lahore.
