LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Narcotics Force (CNF) claims to have busted a clandestine factory manufacturing ecstasy in the Begum Kot area.
The intelligence-based operation was carried out by a joint team of the Lahore and Kasur units of the Punjab CNF and 12,000 party pills known as ecstasy tablets were recovered from the factory with an estimated value of Rs36 million.
The operation also led to the recovery of 25 grams of ice and 40kg precursor raw material used in the manufacture of ecstasy tablets.
The estimated value ofthe precursor material is Rs200 million.
According to a Punjab CNF spokesperson, the recovered material could have been used to manufacture an additional 100,000 ecstasy tablets.
The CNF team also seized a range of machinery used in the manufacturing process, including a tabletmaking machine, mixing machine,washingmachine and 10 other machines.
Other seized items included potency-enhancing creams used to increase the effects of narcotic pills.
The Punjab CNF took the material into custody and launched further investigations to identify and apprehend other elements involved in the manufacturing, supply and distribution of narcotics.