Iran finds 2500 kg of drugs on Pakistan border

Iranian police have seized more than 2,500 kilograms of drugs in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.

“Saravan border police clashed with the smugglers who imported the drugs from Pakistan into Saravan," IRINN quoted Saravan border police commander, Colonel Yusefi, as saying on Friday.

“The smugglers left the drugs and escaped into Pakistan {territory} after the clash," he added.

"2,540 kilograms of drugs were found after the smugglers escaped," he further explained.

The city of Saravan is located in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, close to the international border with Pakistan.

The Afghanistan-Pakistan border region has become one of the world's largest free-trade zones for anything and everything that is illicit, from drugs and weapons to even people and migrants, a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has stated.

Late October, Iran's Interior Minister, Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, said Tehran would soon implement an agreement signed with Islamabad that places Pakistan in a position of greater responsibility for security.

“Border security and intelligence cooperation make up the main parts of the agreement between the two countries, as well as drugs, weapons and human trafficking," Mohammad-Najjar said.

“The Pakistani government has committed to comprehensive security and intelligence cooperation, which we hope will soon yield tangible results," he added.

“Hopefully, with the agreement in place, we will no longer witness tragic incidents such as the one in Pishin," he said.

Tehran and Islamabad signed the security agreement in the wake of October's bloody terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 35 people and wounded another 28.

The Jundullah terror group, which is led by Abdolmalik Rigi, has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Iran's borderline Pishin region.