The Airport Security Force (ASF) has foiled a bid to smuggle over one-kilogram heroin worth millions of rupees abroad and arrested an accused at Islamabad International Airport, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Tuesday.
Sources in the ASF said that during a search of baggage of a passenger identified as Mursaleen Khan leaving for Turkey through an international airline flight at Islamabad International Airport, 1.122-kilogram heroin was recovered.
The ASF confiscated the recovered heroin and arrested the accused.
The nabbed drug peddler was later handed over to Anti- Narcotics Force (ASF) for further investigation, the TV channel reported.