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Dari Pakistan ke Bukit Bintang

Oleh Zailani Ahmad
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PELABUHAN KLANG: Kastam Diraja Malaysia (KDRM) Selangor berjaya mematahkan cubaan sindiket dadah antarabangsa berpangkalan di Islamabad, Pakistan yang cuba membawa masuk heroin mentah seberat 214.5 kilogram (kg) dianggarkan bernilai RM37.8 juta di Pelabuhan Klang, pada 28 April lalu.

Taktik sindiket menyorokkan dadah terbabit di dalam bungkusan simen di satu daripada lima kontena simen gagal apabila kastam yang curiga dengan dokumen kargo itu mencatatkan alamat pembeli di Plaza Low Yat, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur sedangkan kawasan berkenaan hanya berurus niaga produk berkaitan teknologi maklumat (IT) seperti telefon dan komputer.

Pengarah KDRM negeri, Datuk Azis Yacub berkata, susulan itu kastam menahan lima unit kontena di Pelabuhan Utara pada 18 April lalu.

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  TAKTIK...bungkusan heroin dalam serbuk simen.

“Semua kontena didapati tiba ke negara ini dari Islamabad, Pakistan melalui Pelabuhan Karachi dan semakan borang pengimport mendapati setiap unit kontena diikrar membawa sebanyak 560 beg simen.

“Pada jam 3 petang, 28 April lalu unit penguat kuasa KDRM dengan bantuan Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Narkotik (JSJN) Selangor yang menjalankan pemeriksaan rapi ke atas lima kontena simen menemui 278 bungkusan serbuk dipercayai heroin mentah seberat 214.5kg disorokkan dalam beg simen pada kontena pertama,”katanya dalam sidang akhbar di KDRM Pelabuhan Utara, semalam.

Hadir sama, Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Narkotik negeri, Asisten Komisioner Nordin Kadir.

Azis berkata, polis yang turut melakukan pemeriksaan mendapati heroin mentah itu dibungkus kemas dalam beg plastik serta disembunyikan di tengah beg simen.

Berikutan itu, kastam dengan kerjasama polis menahan dua warga Pakistan berusia 21 dan 27 tahun di sebuah kondominium di Jalan Tun Abdul Razak, Kuala Lumpur kerana dipercayai mendalangi kegiatan penyeludupan dadah pada 5 Mei lalu.

Azis berkata, kedua-dua suspek terbabit kini direman di Balai Polis Dang Wangi sehingga Selasa depan dan dijangka didakwa mengikut Seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya (ADB) 1952 dan jika sabit dengan kesalahan boleh dikenakan hukuman mati.

Beliau juga tidak menolak kemungkinan sindiket antarabangsa itu bekerjasama dengan pengedar dadah tempatan untuk memproses dadah mentah bagi keperluan tempatan dan juga dieksport semula ke negara jiran.

“Harga dadah yang sudah diproses meningkat tiga kali ganda mengikut gred ketelitian memproses. Ini bererti dadah mentah seberat 214.5kg yang dirampas boleh dijual dengan harga pasaran melebihi RM100 juta,” katanya.

:: Pakistan: Banjir

News CENTRAL/S. ASIA Floods trap thousands in Pakistan Thousands have been forced to flee the floods in the northwest [Reuters] Eight hundred people are now known to have been killed in the worst floods in Pakistan's history as rescue workers attempted to reach thousands of people stranded by torrential monsoon rains. More than a million people had been affected by the floods on Saturday. Bloated rivers have washed away villages and triggered devastating landslides throughout the northwest of the country. Vast swathes of farmlands have been destroyed, and entire cities have been cut off after being lashed by the heaviest rains in living memory. Pakistani officials warned that more people could be affected as they expected river levels to continue to rise in coming days. The city of Peshawar has been entirely cut off from the rest of the country, and the Pakistani military has sent boats and helicopters to surrounding areas to rescue stranded villagers. Meanwhile, army engineers were working around the clock to divert floodwaters away from major roads so that rescue teams could reach stricken areas. Rising death toll Officials warn that the death toll is almost certain to rise, as many areas of the country are inaccessible. "We have not collected the complete figures from some districts and fear the number of casualties is much higher," Anwer Kazmi, a spokesman for the Pakistani charity the Edhi Foundation, said. Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman, reporting from Pakistan's capital Islamabad, said that the government there was coordinating a response. "They have managed to deploy three battalions of the military, both by air, on the water and by foot," he said. "We estimate there are 2400 personnel working to help the survivors of the flooding." A UN situation report into the crisis said that many parts of the affected area have still not been reached. "Search and rescue as well as assessments operations are still patchy and do not cover the whole of the affected area," it said. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa's information minister said that a lack of suitable equipment was hampering rescue efforts. "A rescue operation using helicopters cannot be conducted due to the bad weather, while there are only 48 rescue boats available for rescue," he said. The floods came after what meteorologists described as an "unprecedented" 12 inches of rain fell in just 36 hours. Experts believe the worst of the rainfall is now over, but the extent of the damage is still being assessed. Poor weather this week also may have been a factor in Wednesday's Airblue plane crash that killed 152 people near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Source: Al Jazeera and Agencies