Chandigarh, Oct. 8 -- In a major breakthrough during its ongoing war against drugs, a team of the operations cell of UT police busted an interstate drug trafficking network, allegedly having Pakistan links, and arrested four persons with 1kg heroin. A sophisticated country-made pistol and five live cartridges were also recovered from them, police said.

The accused have been identified as Jaspreet Singh alias Jassi, 30, a taxi driver from Barnala who was caught with 284 gm heroin; Gurlal Singh alias Lal, 36, of Karnal, found with 514 gm heroin; Arshdeep Singh, 24, of Moga, nabbed with 156gm heroin; and Gursab alias Sabba, 24, of Moga, arrested with 57 gm heroin, the pistol and five live cartridges

Police said their arrests came during in...