Pakistan Navy Ship PNS Yarmook, collaborating with the Saudi-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), seized narcotics worth over $972 million from sailboats in the Arabian Sea, according to a statement on Tuesday from the naval network overseeing the operation.
The CMF, a naval partnership including the United States, reported that the Pakistani naval vessel intercepted two different dhow sailing boats within a 48-hour period last week.
On October 18, the crew boarded the first dhow and confiscated over two tons of crystal methamphetamine (ICE) with an estimated street value of $822,400,000. Less than 48 hours later, they boarded a second dhow and seized 350 kg of ICE worth $140,000,000, and 50 kg of cocaine valued at $10,000,000, according to the CMF statement.
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The intercepted vessels were ‘identified as having no nationality,’ without specifying their origin.
This was ‘one of the most successful narcotics seizures for CMF,’ stated Royal Saudi Naval Forces Commodore Fahad Aljoiad, commander of the CMF taskforce conducting the operation.
U.S. Central Command congratulates the Saudi-led Combined Task Force 150 of Combined Maritime Forces for successfully seizing more than $972 million worth of narcotics. Over a 48-hour period, Pakistan Navy Ship Yarmook conducted boarding operations of two dhows in the Arabian…
The US Central Command, in a post on X, congratulated the CMF, which includes 47 countries’ navies and patrols more than 3 million square miles of sea, including some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, to disrupt the smuggling of drugs and weapons.
Combined Maritime Forces is a 47-nation naval partnership upholding the international rules-based order by promoting security and stability across 3.2 million square miles of water, encompassing some of the world’s most important shipping lanes.
