The items included 12,000 packs of cigarettes, 272 packets of other contraband, Indian medicine and betel leaves which were to be transported to Peshawar and other parts of the country by the dealers, according to a statement issued by the Khyber House. The raid in Bacha Maina was conducted by Landi Kotal’s assistant commissioner and his staff members on the orders of the deputy commissioner.
Official sources in Torkham told Dawn that cigarettes were illegally brought in from Afghanistan with the help of minor smugglers, who conceal cigarette packs in secret cavities of trucks carrying coal and soapstone.
They added that the smugglers later handed over those “small consignments” to their handlers on the Pakistani side of the border where they’re kept in privately owned warehouses.
The sources said smuggled cigarettes and medicines were first sent to the Karkhano Market in Peshawar in taxicabs with the police at checkposts being bribed and later to different parts of the country.They insisted that the major chunk of contraband were distributed to dealers in Peshawar, with Indian medicines mostly consumed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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