By Titilope Adako

The Pakistani navy, working as part of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), has successfully seized closely $1bn worth of narcotics from two vessels sailing through the Arabian Sea.

According to The CMF, the naval network monitoring the operation, in a statement on Wednesday stated that last week, the Pakistani navy intercepted the dhows in two different assignments for over 48 hours and held narcotics worth more than $972m.

The crew immediately boarded the first dhow and seized over 2 tonnes of “crystal methamphetamine (ICE) with an estimated street value of $822,400,000” on October 18, the CMF revealed in a statement.

“Less than 48 hours later, the crew boarded a second dhow and seized 350 kg of ICE worth $140,000,000, and 50 kg of cocaine worth $10,000,000.”

The CMF did not provide exactness on where the vessels originated, but said that they were identified “as having no nationality”.

Findings has it that the CMF is a 47-nation naval partnership commissioned with inspecting more than 3.2 million square miles (about 829 million hectares) of waters, including some of the world’s most germane shipping lanes, to block smuggling at all cost.

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