Islamabad:
The Pakistani authorities have seized an enormous amount of tramadol of Indian smuggling origin, a very addictive drug, worth 10 billion rupees, suspecting the involvement of a cross -border contraband network.
The Karachi customs application collector seized the high -dose smuggling drugs, according to customs officials who are aware of the details of the operation that was carried out on February 20.
Tramadol is regulated by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (RID) and is an opioid in high doses in high doses, confirmed the laboratory ratio.
The drug can be bought in Pakistan on the prescription of a doctoar. But two weeks ago, the RID had envisaged a proposal to declare it as a “controlled substance” under the control of the 1997 law on narcotics substances to limit its use as an opioid addictive drug.
Pakistan customs have declared seizure as one of the largest pharmaceutical operations in which it has recovered 21.8 million tablets and 7,000 unregistered tramadol capsules. Customs authorities have said it could be the greatest crisis ever in South Asia.
The quantity recovered requires a large container for transport. Last year, Mumbai customs entered 6.8 million tablets worth 1.1 billion Indian rupees. The opioid is not widely used in Pakistan and its main markets are in the Middle East and Africa. However, the authorities have apprehensions that the drug can be used by anti-state elements because its consumers can remain awake for hours.
Customs officials said the estimated drug value of medicines was 10 billion rupees. The Collector Customs team Moinuddin Ahmad Wani led the operation on February 20 in Karachi.
Preliminary surveys have revealed that some of the smuggling drugs have also been poorly dismissed as vaccines. Customs officials found packaging equipment from the RAID site, bearing the “extended vaccination program”. Authorities suspected that some of the drugs may have been introduced under the costume of the vaccination vaccination program due to the possibility of the involvement of compensation agents.
The drugs seized were packed in boxes, many of which carried marks indicating their origin from India. A detailed examination has revealed several variants of high dose tramadol, notably Tamral, Royal, Trameking Yellow 225mg, Tramaking Black 225mg and 250mg and New Tramadol.
The absence of wrinkle registration numbers on entered products suggests that they have been illegally imported or made locally using active smuggling pharmaceutical ingredients (API), according to the authorities.
A FIR has been filed and legal proceedings were initiated against the persons involved in the smuggling of the seized drugs. Customs have so far traced a chemist and a pharmaceutical company that could have been part of the cross -border contraband network.
The goods were arrested under article 168 of the 1969 customs law, and an opinion under article 171 was issued. In addition, the wardrobe was apprehended during the raid, and other arrests are expected as the investigation continues, the authorities said.
The Customs Application Collector said that he had dismantled the network involved in the illegal trade in non -registered and dangerous pharmaceuticals. The raid had been led to an abandoned warehouse in the Korangi industrial zone in the night of February 20 and 21.
The officials said that the samples of the seized shipment had been sent to the Central Drug Laboratory (CDL) for the tests, which confirmed the presence of the API, tramadol chlorhydrate.
The development also came in the heels to break a smuggling network by an intelligence agency a few weeks ago, which included 78 customs and smuggled managers involved in the smuggling of unused non -personalized goods from Quetta in Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Lahore and Rawalpindi.
