PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Excise Department on Thursday conducted a major operation and arrested a member of a gang of international smugglers while recovering 23 machine readable passports (MRPs) and 20 fake identity cards made for Afghan nationals. The passports and identity cards were to be used in drug smuggling abroad, said the spokesman of Excise department, adding that the Excise Department conducted operation in Tajabad and Arbab Road areas here on hideouts of the facilitators of international drug smugglers and confiscated fake MRPs and CNICs and arrested one of the main members of the group, Rahimullah from the spot. APP
The operation has been done at the student hostel located in Tajabad and the shop located on Arbab Road. It should be noted that many important suspects of this international smugglers group have already been arrested. Excise Department’s operations against drug smugglers and their facilitators continued and more success is expected in this regard.
