KARACHI: Gadap police have arrested two suspects for allegedly smuggling narcotics concealed in specially designed slippers, SSP Malir Dr. Abdul Khaliq Pirzada said on Tuesday.
According to the SSP, the suspects, identified as Saqib and Kamran, had travelled from Hub Chowki to Gadap with hashish hidden in secret compartments built into their slippers.
Each suspect was carrying approximately one kilogram of hashish concealed in the footwear’s layered soles, police said.
The investigation has also revealed the alleged involvement of a cobbler who reportedly prepared specially designed slippers to conceal and transport the narcotics.
According to SSP Pirzada, the suspected drug traffickers had also devised coded language to communicate with one another and coordinate their supplies.
Police are investigating the suspects’ alleged links to a wider drug-supply network and searching for their accomplices. Their previous criminal records are also being checked, the SSP said.
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Earlier, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) seized 3,825 kilograms of drugs during a major operation in Kech district of Balochistan, an ANF spokesperson said.
According to the spokesperson, the operation was conducted at a suspected hideout in the Josak area of Kech district following intelligence-based information.
The seized drugs included 2,454kg of hashish, 1,363kg of methamphetamine (ice) and 8kg of heroin, the spokesperson said.
The drugs, reportedly valued at more than Rs560 million, were allegedly being stored temporarily at a compound before being smuggled abroad through the sea route.
The ANF said the drugs had been smuggled into Pakistan from Afghanistan and were intended to be transported overseas after receiving a signal from the trafficking network.
Following the seizure, the ANF has intensified its efforts to identify and apprehend members of the suspected drug-trafficking network and their facilitators, the spokesperson said.