QUETTA, Nov 24: Police on Friday arrested a suspected Afghan terrorist while he was coming to Quetta and seized explosives and other material, DIG (operation) Ghulam Qadir Thebo told a press conference.
He said that the arrested man, Shah Khan, belonged to Afghan army. He had illegally crossed into Pakistan three days ago through an unfrequented route. After spending three days in Muslim Bagh, he was on his way to Quetta in a mini-bus which was intercepted by police at Balili customs check-post, the DIG said.
During search of Khan’s belonging, he said, police found 15 rolls of high intensity explosives, 30 pencil timers, 29 detonators and wire used for blasts.
"During interrogation, the Afghan suspect gave information about his plan of subversion activities in Quetta," he said, adding that police had arrested two men on information provided by him. He did not disclose the name of the two.
Police produced the accused before journalists but did not allow them to ask him any question.
The DIG said that the suspect had come from Afghanistan's Paktia province to deliver explosives to his local contacts in Quetta to carry out terrorist attacks, adds AFP.
Two others, a Pakistani and an Afghan, were arrested later in Quetta after the suspect gave information about them to police, he said.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Terrorist Force conducted a raid in the Mach area of Bolan district and arrested four alleged activists of the banned Baloch Liberation Army.
