Police kill 4 drug smugglers of banned terrorist outfit in SW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 27– Police in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province killed four drug smugglers after a shootout on Tuesday, a spokesperson of the Counter Terrorism Department of the police said. The peddlers who the spokesperson said to be associated with a banned terrorist outfit were attempting to smuggle drugs to the country’s southern port city of…

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — Police in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province killed four drug smugglers after a shootout on Tuesday, a spokesperson of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police said.

The peddlers who the spokesperson said to be associated with a banned terrorist outfit were attempting to smuggle drugs to the country’s southern port city of Karachi in a truck when they were stopped at a check post in the provincial capital of Quetta.

“Police got an intelligence tip-off regarding the smuggling of drugs in a truck, and when the cops asked the truck to pull over rather than stopping the vehicle, the people inside opened fire at the police,” the spokesperson added.

The police were well prepared to counter the attack, and killed all the four people inside in the retaliatory attack, the CTD official said.

The police recovered 27 kg of drugs and some weapons from the truck, the spokesperson said, adding that the terrorists used to smuggle drugs for buying weapons and finance terrorist plots in the country.

Earlier on Friday, the CTD killed two high-profile terrorists during an intense exchange of fire in the Khuzdar area of Balochistan, by acting on an intelligence tip-off. Enditem