Saturday, 7 July 2012

Bid to smuggle 2,000-year-old artefacts out of Pakistan foiled

Karachi

 

Two-thousand-year-old statues and coins – worth billions of rupees — belonging to the Gandhara Civilisation were recovered when the Awami Colony police foiled a bid to smuggle the artefacts in the wee hours of Friday.

 

Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Landhi Mirza Abdul Majeed told The News that a tip-off informed them about the smuggling attempt and, subsequently, the police intercepted a container heading towards the north of the country. A search of

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