BAHAWALPUR: A Zambian woman was arrested at the Rahim Yar Khan Airport after customs officials detected 20 heroin-filled capsules surgically concealed inside her stomach. The woman, identified as Chiputa Kamasha, had arrived at Sheikh Zayed international Airport for taking flight PK-295 to Dubai. Officials detained the women over her suspicious behaviour. During interrogation, she told the officials that she was three months pregnant. She was shifted to the Sheikh Zayed Medical Hospital, where a check-up confirmed her pregnancy but also showed a large amount of heroin-filled capsules inside her stomach. Doctors retrieved 20 capsules in an operation. If convicted, she faces death penalty.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2015.