Pak narco-terror. Punjab: Biggest ever haul puts spotlight on ‘new’ drug route, modus operandi. Narco-trade has Pak stamp

Biggest heroin seizure worth Rs 2,700cr on Attari
Customs joint commissioner Arvind Kumar said the drugs were recovered when their staff found the weight and shape of one of the bags to be different. “After this, all other bags were examined.” “Some lapses must have been there and that is why the consignment crossed over to India,” said Gupta.

 Punjab: Biggest ever haul puts spotlight on ‘new’ drug route, modus operandi 
Deo said the seizure of huge consignment of narcotics showed easy availability of sufficient heroin in the ‘Golden Crescent’ comprising Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, from where smugglers were desperately trying to push drugs into India.

ATTARI HAUL
Trader’s father was Customs employee
Opened firm with brother

Pak narco-terror

Centre, states should jointly fight menace

...suggests that narco terror is gaining ground as an instrument of Pakistan’s relentless proxy war against India ... the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime. The drug problem should be acknowledged on a par with terrorism as a national challenge. The ‘silent killer’ must be crushed with an iron hand before it eats away the country’s young generation. 

CUSTOMS’ HAUL OF FAME

Narco-trade has Pak stamp

HEROIN HAUL

Big lapse on part of Pakistani authorities: Customs