{"id":245263,"date":"2020-01-09T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=245263"},"modified":"2020-01-09T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:24:50","slug":"5-pakistani-men-caught-smuggling-heroin-worth-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/5-pakistani-men-caught-smuggling-heroin-worth-millions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Pakistani Men Caught Smuggling Heroin Worth Millions of Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five Pakistani men were caught attempting to smuggle over $24.2 million worth of heroin into India. The men were captured in a fishing boat off the Gujarat coast.<\/p>\n

Gujarat Police\u2019s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), and the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) arrested the men in a joint operation.<\/p>\n

Once on board the fishing boat, the officers discovered thirty-five packets of heroin, weighing a total of 35 kilograms. The Class A drugs were worth approximately 24.2 million US dollars on the international market.<\/p>\n

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The five Pakistani men have been identified as Anees Isa Bhatti (30), Ismail Mohammed Kachchi (50), Ashhraf Usman Kutchhi (42), Kareem Abdulla Kutchhi (37) and Abubaqar Ashraf Sumra (55).<\/p>\n

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Pakistani men trying to smuggle 35kg of heroin into India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The suspects are all residents of Beet Zajeera, Karachi.<\/p>\n

How This Ship Went Down<\/h3>\n

Police officers said that the operation was launched following a tip-off. According to the ATS statement they had received reports of a large shipment of drugs\u00a0being transported from Pakistan into India.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Anti-Terrorism Squad, Gujarat, had got credible information that an illegal consignment of narcotic drugs, heroin, was going to be smuggled into Gujarat through the coast.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ATS then contacted ICG and launched a joint operation. According to a senior officer, they later received further information that they’re looking for a fishing boat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information further revealed that the consignment is being sent in a Pakistani fishing boat from Pakistan.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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They were told the smuggler boat was located northwest of Jakhau, so they sent out intercepting boats from the district of Kutch when they discovered.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommandos of the marine task force were kept in boats in Indian waters to help in apprehending the smugglers … A suspicious boat was identified at the said location in Indian waters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The five Pakistani men were arrested and taken to Kutch police station for interrogation. One officer revealed that all Indian agencies are now involved in the interrogation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interrogation of the apprehended accused persons is in progress jointly by all agencies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Five Pakistani men were caught attempting to smuggle over $24.2 million worth of heroin into India. The men were captured in a fishing boat off the Gujarat coast. Gujarat Police\u2019s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), and the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) arrested the men in a joint operation. Once on board the fishing boat, the officers discovered thirty-five packets of heroin, weighing […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":245276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,2199],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-featured"},"wps_subtitle":"High quality stuff.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/heroin-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/heroin-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/heroin.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Crime","Featured"],"title_text":"5 Pakistani Men Caught Smuggling Heroin Worth Millions of Dollars","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,2199&exclude=245263","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245263"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=245263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}