In a coordinated maritime operation in the Arabian Sea, the Pakistan Navy intercepted two suspicious vessels over 48 hours and recovered a large consignment of illegal narcotics that has been valued at nearly $1 billion. The operation highlighted Pakistan Navy capabilities in counter-narcotics enforcement and international maritime cooperation.<\/p>\n
PNS Yarmouk<\/strong>, operating in connection with the Saudi-led task group and Combined Task Force 150, carried out the boardings that led to the seizure of two tonnes of crystal meth, 350 kilograms of ice and 50 kilograms of cocaine. The total estimated value of the recovered drugs is around $972.4 million.<\/p>\n United States Central Command publicly commended the Pakistan Navy for the successful operation, noting the effectiveness of combined regional efforts against illicit trafficking. The Pakistan Navy’s swift action in detecting and securing the contraband has drawn praise from partner navies engaged in maritime security in the region.<\/p>\n Saudi Royal Navy commander Fahd Al-Juwaid described the action as a strong example of global cooperation against drug smuggling, underscoring the importance of intelligence sharing and coordinated patrols. For Pakistan, the operation reinforces the Navy’s role in protecting maritime routes and supporting international law enforcement against narcotics networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pakistan Navy seizes drugs worth nearly $1 billion in the Arabian Sea in a CTF-150 linked operation praised by US CENTCOM. Read details of the bust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}