KOHAT: The Kohat police seized 150 litres of home-made liquor and six kilogrammes of hashish in separate actions and arrested two alleged smugglers on Wednesday.
Following strict orders of district police officer Sohail Khalid to cut the supply line of drug smuggling, Saddar police SHO Afzal Awan acting on the information of district special branch stopped a pickup van at the interchange and recovered 150 litres of liquor from it, which was being smuggled out of Kohat.
According to police, the accused, Shakir, was arrested and sent behind bars after registration of a case against him.
In a similar case, the SHO of cantonment police stopped a suspicious car (J-6123-Peshawar) coming from Orakzai district at Kaghazai post.
The weapons included 75 12-bore repeaters, 10 shotguns and spare parts of various arms. Online/File
KOHAT: The police seized a big cache of weapons and related spare parts which were being smuggled in a truck from Parachinar to Peshawar and Punjab via Kohat and arrested three smugglers at Gulshanabad here on Thursday.
The weapons included 75 12-bore repeaters, 10 shotguns and spare parts of various arms.
DSP headquarters Ijaz Khan Abazai told a press conference that they had information from the Intelligence Bureau about an attempt to smuggle a big quantity of weapons via Kohat.
SHO Afzal Awan and his team stopped the truck at Gulshanabad close to the hilly track between Kohat and Darra Adamkhel. Trucks are not allowed to use the Friendship tunnel.