{"id":791,"date":"2026-03-12T19:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashgilnews.com\/english\/?p=791"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:03:59","slug":"uk-son-of-pakistani-kashmir-finance-minister-sentenced-to-30-months-in-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashgilnews.com\/english\/791\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Son of Pakistani Kashmir Finance Minister Sentenced to 30 Months in Drug Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Pakistani-origin suspect involved in the supply of Class A drugs has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a court in the British city of Aylesbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local police Thames Valley Police, the suspect, Abbas Hussain Akhlaq, confessed in court that he was involved in a network for the supply of Class A drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the police, in October 2024, officers raided the suspect\u2019s address under a warrant, from where cocaine, drug paraphernalia, cash and several mobile phones were recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the investigation, several messages related to the supply of drugs were also found in one of the mobile phones recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say that these messages included advertising messages and requests from consumers to order drugs, after which the case became stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to authorities, actions will continue against elements involved in the supply of drugs as such activities have a devastating impact on society and the local community. Police say that anti-drug operations are being carried out both openly and covertly to disrupt supply networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to media reports, the convicted accused, Abbas Hussain Akhlaq, is said to be from Pakistan-administered Kashmir, while his father is a member of the local assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that in 2008, ten people were convicted in a major drug smuggling case in the UK. One of the ten-member gang was Ansar Iqbal, who belonged to Dadyal in Mirpur District of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and was based in Birmingham, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court sentenced Ansar Iqbal to eight years in prison in 2008. The ten-member gang was accused of supplying drugs in Bradford, Manchester and other cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the investigation that lasted for about ten months, the police recovered 39 kilograms of heroin, one and a half kilograms of amphetamine and the same amount of cocaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, Ansar Iqbal was appointed as the Chairman of the Investment Board and a member of the board of AJK Bank by the government of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, but he later resigned from this position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani-origin suspect involved in the supply of Class A drugs has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a court in the British city of Aylesbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,34],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir","tag-government-of-pok","tag-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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