Peshawar police foil bid to smuggle 800-year-old statue

PESHAWAR: Peshawar Police on Thursday night foiled the bid to smuggle an 800-year-old antiquity worth millions of rupees, ARY News reported.

Police carried out a raid at Motorway Toll Plaza checkpoint and arrested a culprit after they received a tip-off about stealing of an antique statue.

Police said the outlaw had stolen the statue from Kobat Khela and wanted to smuggle it abroad.

The Department of Archaeology said the antiquity was 800 years old.

A man was caught at the Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar on January 31 trying to smuggle drugs hidden in fruits.

According to Airport Security Force (ASF), the man had hidden drugs inside oranges and pomegranates and wanted to smuggle them to Qatar.

He was due to board a flight, but was caught during screening of his goods. The passenger had hidden charas weighing more than four kilograms inside the fruits.

The ASF personnel have taken the man into custody and began investigation. Sources at the airport said joint search counters were helping the Airport Security Force in catching all such elements.

The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on January 31 claimed to have foiled a bid to smuggle drugs out of the country by nabbing two suspected smugglers at the Islamabad airport.

ANF officials said one kilogram of heroin amounting to millions of rupees was seized from the possession of the arrested smugglers. They were to board a Doha-bound flight (QR-633).