‘Clever and street-smart’: Police say Anmol did not employ anyone permanently

KARACHI: Anmol alias Pinky, 31, an alleged cocaine queenpin arrested by police in Karachi, is ‘clever and street-smart’ because she did not hire anyone on a permanent basis in her narcotics trade, South Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Syed Asad Raza said on Saturday. DIG Asad told Dawn that the accused Pinky’s associates supplied cocaine to customers through a network of 35 riders across the country. “She started her own network in Lahore after ending a 10-year marriage with her husband, Rana Nasir, who was also an alleged drug dealer, accusing him of domestic violence,” the senior police official said. He added that around nine or ten riders working for the accused had been arrested in Karachi’s Clifton and Defence areas. “The accused hired lawyers and paid them fees to pursue the cases of the arrested riders. In addition, she remained in contact with different police officers,” DIG Asad said. According to details shared by South DIG, Anmol told investigators that she had wanted to become a model since childhood, but her family had opposed her dream. “To pursue her dream, one day she took a large amount of cash and gold ornaments from an apartment on Abul Hasan Isphahani Road. She informed her mother and moved from Karachi to Lahore in 2008 after having studied up to class 8,” he said. Since she had no residence or relatives there, the DIG said, Anmol met a family who offered her a room on rent for Rs5,000 per month, where she stayed for one and a half years. “In the meantime, she continued her efforts to work in films. She met a film producer who took her to different film shootings, but she could not get work in films. She also used to attend different parties with the producer and one day at a party in Lahore’s Defence area, she met Rana Nasir, who, according to her, appeared to be a wealthy man. She developed a friendship with him,” the official said. “After eight to nine months of friendship, she married Rana Nasir at the age of 14 and started living in Defence