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Thursday January 10, 12:22 AM Pakistan makes 50-million dollar heroin seizure Anti-narcotics officers in Pakistan have seized over 600 kilograms of heroin worth more than 50 million dollars during the past few days, an official told AFP. The military-led anti-narcotics squad seized 630 kilograms of pure heroin and 250 kilograms of morphine in an operation overnight Monday in Balangoor in southwestern Baluchistan province near the Iranian border, a police official said One person was killed in the raid outside the town of Turbat, 950 kilometres (595 miles) southwest of Islamabad, when the anti-narcotics squad intercepted the smuggling gang transporting the drugs on camels. Four members of the drug gang were arrested after a brief shoot out. One of them was injured and has been admitted to hospital, the official said. An anti-narcotics official told AFP it could be the biggest haul in Pakistan's history in terms of seizing pure white heroin. One kilogram would fetch 80,000 dollars on the streets of Europe, he said. The impoverished Turbat region along the Arabian Sea is notorious for drug smuggling. Pakistan was a major heroin producing country until 1998 when the anti-narcotics force, aided by the US government, clamped down on poppy farmers in the country's northwestern tribal areas. The United Nations declared Pakistan to be a poppy-free country in 2000. Pakistan has 2.3 million heroin addicts, the largest number in the world. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
