Two held for smuggling foreign currency, drugs at Lahore airport

By GEO NEWS
October 15, 2017

The suspects have been identified as Shahid Alam and Latif

A view of the Lahore airport. Photo: File

LAHORE: The Airport Security Force (ASF) arrested a suspect on Sunday for attempting to smuggle foreign currency out of the country.

According to sources, ASF officials seized Rs2 million in foreign currency from a passenger who was travelling to China on a Pakistan International Airlines flight.

ASF officials have taken the passenger, identified as Shahid Alam, into custody.

Further investigations are under way.

In another operation, the ASF seized 1.5kg heroin from a suspect.

Sources said that the suspect, identified as Latif, aresidentof Narowal, Punjab, was travelling to Karachi.

He has been taken into custody and is being investigated.


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