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KARACHI, April 18 (AFP) - A record six-tonne haul of hashish and other drugs said to be worth millions of dollars in overseas markets has been seized in southern Pakistan, police said Thursday.

Pakistan's anti-narcotics agency said they had arrested one woman in a raid in this southern port city, a notorious transit point for drugs produced in neighbouring Afghanistan. More arrests were expected.

Police said the haul was the biggest ever recorded in Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital.

"The estimated local price of the drugs come to around 50 million rupees (835,000 US dollars) but in foreign markets this could fetch millions of dollars," anti-narcotics force commander Brigadier Saleem Akhund said.

Drug traffic through Karachi, much of it bound for Europe, the Middle East and America, has increased since the fall of the Afghan Taliban regime which outlawed the cultivation of drug-producing poppies, Akhund said. 

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