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Indian authorities on Saturday has arrested six Pakistani nationals and seized heroin worth tens of millions of dollars from a Pakistani fishing boat in the Arabian Sea near the western state of Gujarat.
A senior Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) official Deepan Bhadran in Gujarat said the heroin seized was smuggled from Afghanistan and the Pakistani men arrested are being questioned to understand the modus operandi. Officials estimated the value of the 50 kg of heroin at 3.5 billion rupees
India is part of a transit route in the lucrative drug smuggling trade, due to its proximity to Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer of opium, from which heroin is made.