Pakistani authorities seized 2.3 tonnes of morphine worth millions of dollars and a large quantity of arms from a remote southwestern village near the Afghan border, a paramlitary officer said on Sunday. The drugs and arms such as rocket launchers, mortars and anti-aircraft rounds smuggled from Afghanistan were found dumped in a village after a raid by paramilitary Frontier Corps near the town of Chaghi in Baluchistan province on Saturday, Lieutenant Colonel Rizwan Malik told reporters. Chaghi lies some 300 km (185 miles) west of Quetta, capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Officials say a tonne of morphine is worth about $10 million in the international market. Most illegal drugs seized in Pakistan come from Afghanistan where opium production last year reached 3,600 tonnes, more than three-quarters of global supply, according to U.N. estimates.
