Amritsar, Aug. 12 -- The Border Security Force seized two pistols and heroin in two separate incidents along the Ferozpur and Amritsar border on Thursday afternoon, the BSF said in a press release.

"In its crackdown on cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics, the alert BSF troops seized two pistols and heroin in two separate incidents along the Ferozpur and Amritsar border. This afternoon, acting on precise information of BSF intelligence wing, the vigilant BSF troops on duty successfully recovered 01 big packet containing 02 pistols and 03 small packets of heroin (Gross weight- 1.649 Kgs) from an area adjacent to village Bhakra in Ferozepur," BSF said in the release.

BSF said that the big packet was wrapped in yellow adhesive tape...