PESHAWAR: Security forces arrested a Chinese national on Monday in Khyber Agency near the Pak-Afghan border.

Sources told Dawn that Chinese national Liu Yongguang was arrested by security forces near Takhta Beg checkpost in Khyber tribal region.

The arrested person had no legal documents and was handed over to the Special Branch of police for further investigation.

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In the wake of the Army Public School carnage in Peshawar, authorities have been strictly checking travel documents of commuters at the border.

However, locals say routine travel has gone down after the tragic attack on APS in December last year which left more than a hundred students and faculty dead.

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Khyber is one of Pakistan’s seven semi-autonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies near the Afghan border.

Authorities had launched the ongoing operation 'Khyber-1' in the region in October 2014 on credible information about the presence of militants in parts of Sipah and Akkakhel areas.

Khyber-1 was launched amidst 'Zarb-i-Azb', a full-fledged military operation being conducted by the Pakistani military against Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in North Waziristan tribal region.