QUETTA, Oct 3: Afghan security forces on Wednesday allegedly arrested four Pakistanis suspected of being suicide bombers from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

According to reports, they were arrested after a raid on a house in the outskirts of the city and also seized suicide jackets.

“Afghan security forces have arrested four suicide bombers from Kandahar,” Abdul Raziq Panjsheri, an Afghan official from Spin Buldak, a border district, claimed. He claimed that all of the arrested people belonged to the Punjab province of Pakistan and identified them as Mohammad Hussain, Abdul Rauf. M. Shoaib and Hasan.

He said that they were being interrogated and they had disclosed that they belonged to Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a banned outfit.