Britain’s Royal Navy sailors have completed a five-month anti-drug-smuggling operation in the Gulf region and Indian Ocean during which narcotics worth $515 million were seized, the Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday. The Ministry said since April, British, French, the United States and Australian warships in a Combined Task Force have taken part in Operation Southern Surge to counter narcotics trafficking, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Franco-British team has been directing operations since April after taking over from the Canadian Navy, and has now passed on command to the Pakistan Navy.
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