Two alleged drug dealers have been arrested red-handed in Waryamwala, in Jhang district, after a police team caught them with a large quantity of charas and registered a case against them.
The action was carried out by the station house officer of Waryamwala police station, Sub-Inspector Mehr Muhammad Aslam Naul, together with his team. Acting in the area covered by the police station, the team arrested the two men on the spot and recovered 2,127 grams of charas from them. A case has been registered, and the police say investigation is continuing to trace other drug dealers connected with the trade.
The quantity recovered is substantial for a street-level arrest. At just over two kilograms, it is well beyond what could be described as a personal supply, and the police account presents the two men as sellers rather than users. The report of the arrest does not name the men who were arrested, and it does not say where the charas was headed or how the police came to act when they did. Those details have not been made public, and this report does not fill them in.
District Police Officer Jhang, Sajid Hussain, praised the station house officer and his team for the arrest. He said those who destroy the future of the young generation would not be forgiven in any circumstances, and that the net was being tightened around criminals and drug dealers across the district. The DPO’s words put the arrest in the context of a wider push rather than a single raid: a continuing crackdown in which local stations are expected to act against the drug trade in their own areas.
That push has been visible in the district police’s recent record. At the end of October, the same DPO publicly recognised the district’s Crime Control Department team, handing certificates of appreciation and cash rewards to officers and officials for action against criminal elements. The district police had also published accountability figures days earlier showing action taken against officers for misconduct, including terminations and dismissals, alongside rewards for good work. The two moves together — recognition for results and action against officers who fall short — are the pattern the district police leadership has been setting: stations are expected to deliver, and their work is being watched.
The Waryamwala arrest fits that pattern. It is a local station acting on its own patch, with a named officer leading the team and the district police chief publicly backing the result. Whether it leads further depends on the investigation that the police say is now under way. The report states that inquiries are continuing into other drug dealers, which suggests the two arrests are being treated as a starting point rather than the end of the matter.
For residents of Waryamwala, the arrest is a reminder that the drug trade in the district is not confined to the city. Small towns and their surrounding villages are part of the same market, and the police action shows that enforcement is reaching them. It is also a reminder of the limits of a single arrest. Two men in custody and two kilograms seized do not dismantle a supply chain, and the value of the operation will be judged by what the investigation produces next: further arrests, a source identified, or a network disrupted.
What is established for now is straightforward. Two men were arrested red-handed in the Waryamwala police station area, 2,127 grams of charas was recovered, a case was registered, and the district police chief has praised the team and promised that the crackdown will continue. The names of the arrested men and the next steps in the investigation have not been reported, and until the police say more, they should not be guessed at.
Source: Jhang Online News, “SHO Waryamwala Sub-Inspector Mehr Muhammad Aslam Naul’s action with his team; two drug dealers arrested red-handed and large quantity of charas recovered”, report by Hakim Tahir Mahmood Janjua, published 6 November 2026.
