Inside job?: PIA aircraft carries heroin along with passengers

[awan4ever]

As if it wasnt enough that we got extra 'attention' due to our green passports, now our airline is going to be given special 'attention' by security world wide!
I think i wont be flying PIA anymore!

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/400203/i...th-passengers/



KARACHI: Around 4.5 kilogrammes of heroin was seized from a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft in Karachi that was departing for London via Lahore and the airport staff has been identified as prime suspects.


“This has happened a hundred times,” says Customs Spokesperson Qamar Thalho, while referring to Wednesday’s incident on PIA flight PK-787. “About 20 years ago, it used to be gold that we used to find in the toilets of aircraft, up to 140, 000 grams of gold at a time, and now we see that it’s mostly heroin being smuggled in the toilet compartments.”


Thalho says that the heroin was placed within panelling in the toilets and sometimes, it is also put underneath the commode. The heroin, wrapped inside plastic bags, was discovered by the customs Drug Enforcement Cell.


“No third party has access to the plane in the hangers or on the runway which means that the heroin could only be put in by a staff member,” says Thalho.
“People who work in maintenance and repairs are the ones with the easiest access and in the past, we’ve seen even smuggling goods being brought in through catering trays.”


Thalho says that such attempts are made quite frequently and boldly, citing the example of a PIA flight in which smuggled gold was found.


A case has been registered under the Control of Narcotics Subtances Act, 1997 by the Investigation and Prosecution branch of the customs.


“The investigation has just started. First we will determine which crew was working in the hangar at that time and also identify others who had access to the plane. After the suspects are interrogated, we can confirm who was involved,” explains Thalho. “The culprit is most probably an insider.”


The customs register their own FIRs independently and if given remand, the suspects remain in their custody for the duration of the remand.


Published in The Express Tribune, June 28th, 2012.

[Technocrat]

I think this should be pinned to illustrate the amount of corruption which has taken hold in Pakistan due to ROTI, KAPRA & MAKAAN. Inflation is at the highest, with no growth at all in the past 4 years, rather the only growth which the Government's Financial experts can show is on paper!!

In India, a bad economy has led to the biggest economist of India, Manmohan Singh, to take over the Finance Ministry and work on war footing to put the Indian economy back on track. Whereas, we only have corrupt, tried and tested illiterates to bank on in the time of economic crisis. Well done people of Pakistan for voting the right people into office

[Khalid]

52kg of heroin hidden in fruit shipment seized in Dubai

Four people arrested for smuggling 52kg of heroin hidden in fruit shipment

• By Dina Aboul Hosn, Staff Reporter
• Published: 13:09 April 22, 2012

Dubai: The police Anti-Narcotics Department early this month busted a gang involved in an attempt to smuggle 52kg of pure heroin from the fruits and vegetables market in Al Aweer, it was announced yesterday.

Four men, all Pakistanis, were arrested in what police tagged as the biggest heroin operation and one of the biggest drug busts in two years.

The gang’s mastermind – a woman in her mid-50s and a male cohort – remain at large and were reported to be out of the country.

Major-General Abdul Jalil Mahdi, Director of the General Department for Anti-Narcotics at Dubai Police, said the police Central Operations Section has been monitoring the gang after receiving intelligence information about their operation.

“This is a 100 per cent national operation, as no tip was received from a foreign source and our team members were the ones who reached the information and monitored the gang’s activities to catch them red-handed,” he said.

Police initially received an intelligence information on the activities of a Pakistani identified only as J.Z.A., who was reported to be taking part in the drug smuggling operation.

The information revealed that the plan was to conceal the heroin in a 2,600 box shipment of oranges from Pakistan. The contraband will then be transhipped to an African country by a Nigerian man.


http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/cr...ubai-1.1011870

[BuTurabi]

@awan4ever

اعوان صاحب! آپ کی طرف سے کبھی خیر کی خبر نہیں آئی . . . . . ۔

انکی فلائٹس میں پہلے ہی مینجمنٹ کے فونوں پر مسافروں کی کلاس اپ گریڈ ہونے، بے ٹکٹے سفر کرنے اور یورب، امریکہ کے ہوٹلوں سے تولیے، چمچے اور جہازوں سے پانچ مِلی لِٹر والی شیمپو کی نِکی بوتلیں، خُشک دودھ، چینی کی پیکٹیاں اور کچے کچے کیلے وغیرہ چوری کرنے کی خبریں عام تھیں آپ نے یہ بمب وی پھاڑ دیا۔

[awan4ever]

@awan4ever

اعوان صاحب! آپ کی طرف سے کبھی خیر کی خبر نہیں آئی . . . . . ۔

اِنکی فلائٹس میں پہلے ہی مینجمنٹ کے فونوں پر مسافروں کی کلاس اپ گریڈ ہونے، بے ٹکٹے سفر کرنے اور یورب، امریکہ کے ہوٹلوں سے تولیے، چمچے، پانچ مِلی لِٹر والی شیمپو کی نِکی بوتلیں، خُشک دودھ، چینی کی پیکٹیاں اور کچے کچے کیلے وغیرہ چوری کرنے کی خبریں عام تھیں آپ نے یہ بمب وی پھاڑ دیا۔

Sarkar apni khair mana raha hon mein tu...

PIA say safer kerna pehlay he angraizi wala 'suffer' hota tha...aur ab ye 'added feature' bhe naseeb ho gya..

[BuTurabi]

Sarkar apni khair mana raha hon mein tu...

PIA say safer kerna pehlay he angraizi wala 'suffer' hota tha...aur ab ye 'added feature' bhe naseeb ho gya..

ٹھیک کہا آپ نے، میری زندگی کے بھیانک سفر پی آئی اے، ایمرٹس اور الاتحاد میں پیش آئے۔ عربی ائر لائنوں میں بدوانہ گھمنڈی رویہ جو اب عملے میں بھی سرایت کر چُکا ہے دُبئی ائر پورٹ پر لینڈ کرنے کے بعد گراؤنڈ کرو کی مہربانی سے چار گُنا ہو جاتا ہے۔
اپنی پی آئی اے میں سیٹاں ملّ لینے والی عادت سے مجبور اور دُنیا کی ہر چیز ہینڈ کیری میں تُن کر اور ہیڈ بِن میں ٹھونسنے والے مسافروں سے لے کر عاجز از حیات و فربہ اندام میزبان۔

[_ahmed]

ٹھیک کہا آپ نے، میری زندگی کے بھیانک سفر پی آئی اے، ایمرٹس اور الاتحاد میں پیش آئے۔ عربی ائر لائنوں میں بدوانہ گھمنڈی رویہ جو اب عملے میں بھی سرایت کر چُکا ہے دُبئی ائر پورٹ پر لینڈ کرنے کے بعد گراؤنڈ کرو کی مہربانی سے چار گُنا ہو جاتا ہے۔
اپنی پی آئی اے میں سیٹاں ملّ لینے والی عادت سے مجبور اور دُنیا کی ہر چیز ہینڈ کیری میں تُن کر اور ہیڈ بِن میں ٹھونسنے والے مسافروں سے لے کر عاجز از حیات و فربہ اندام میزبان۔

If you have not already been doing that, it might be a good idea to actually put your talent to use, start right columns in Urdu papers or something.

[IMQAYA]

PIA kay crew member 10.000 rupees lay kar kapray ka business karnay walon ka bag lay ker atay hain.

[aqibarain]

GA Bhutto... nothing more to say....