Pakistan Seized Largest Ever Heroin Consignment Worth $44 million in international market, impounding 375 kilograms (825 pounds) of the narcotic worth an estimated $44 million on the international market. About 108 kilograms hidden in matchboxes was seized late Monday from a container at the Karachi port and another 267 kilograms of heroin in a follow up raid in Quaid Abad neighbourhood, officials said.
“We have arrested five people and during investigations they have confessed that they were involved in drugs smuggling for a long time,”. The official said the heroin was smuggled from neighbouring country Afghanistan through Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.