Pakistani held over heroin

JAKARTA (JP): Undercover police officers have apprehended a 45-year-old Pakistani for possessing 70 grams of heroin at the immigration department's quarantine center on Jl. Peta Selatan, Kalideres, in West Jakarta.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang said yesterday the suspect, retired soldier M. Khalid Mahmood, was busted Sunday at the center, where he had been detained for having incomplete documents to enter Indonesia.

"The suspect was trapped in a fake transaction with the undercover police," Aritonang said.

Officers are now questioning him at City Police Headquarters to learn the names of other suspects in the case.

"Police still have to reveal who his fellow syndicate members are and where they are now because the Pakistani refused to give details," he said.

During interrogation, Mahmood reportedly admitted that the confiscated heroin was not his but belonged to a Pakistani friend, identified as Habib.

Meanwhile, a source at the city police detective office said that an employee of a state institution was allegedly involved in the case. (04)