RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Karachi - 13 December 2019
1. Various of burning contraband including hashish, opium and heroin
2. Various of security at the burning site
3. Various of excavator destroying and flattening the contraband
4. Cutaway of liquor bottles
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jawwad Uwais Agha, Member Customs Operation:
"The present products being destroyed are worth around 250 million equivalence to US dollars, the products we are destroying today, which were part of our anti-smuggling campaign and were being attemptedly smuggled out of the country or into the country."
6. Various of officials smashing bottles of liquor
7. Various of officers showing hashish
8. Wide of narcotics burning
STORYLINE:
Large quantities of drugs and alcohol were destroyed on Friday as part of an anti-smuggling campaign in Pakistan's Karachi.
About 250 million US dollars worth of contraband that people had tried to smuggle in or out of the country was gathered, said customs officer Dr. Jawwad Uwais Agha.
He said that 715 kilograms (1,576 pounds) of narcotics and 65,517 bottles of liquor were destroyed or burned. |