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UK "diplomats" set up "sting operations"

01 November 1994

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Evidence of a "sting" operation organised by the UK High Commission and "officials" in Pakistan came to light as the case of two men, sentenced to 10 years in prison, goes to the Court of Appeal. The case involves 9 kilograms of heroin, with a street value of £675,000, being held at the High Commission in Islamabad then flown in diplomatic bags on a British Airways flight to Manchester. Telexes between the High Commission and UK Customs officials show that an informant was paid £6,000. The two men are appealing on the grounds that they were set up by the undercover customs informant and that Home Office guidelines on the use of informants had been breached.

Sunday Times, 20.11.94.

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