KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said the proximity of a large arms cache, recovered from a vacant house in Azizabad, to the headquarters of a political party raises many questions.

"The house is close to the headquarter of a political party, therefore questions are being raised about the ownership of the weapons dumped there," he said.

He said an inquiry has been ordered to probe the origins of the arms cache and all the questions will be answered when the inquiry is completed.

A huge cache of Nato weapons and ammunition was recovered by police earlier this week during a raid on an vacant house in the Azizabad area of the metropolis.

Police seized a large number of weapons including anti-aircraft guns, SMGs, LMGs, sniper rifles,hand grenades and rocket launchers hidden in the water tank of the empty house

Recovered weapons included 11 anti-aircraft guns, 17 grenade launchers, 39 LMGs, 9 RPG-7, 82 SMGs, 11 7-MM, one M-16, 32 China rifles 7.62, 10 G-3, 5 sniper rifles, 2 repeaters, 9 short SMGs and 245 magazines of SMGs and G-3,according to the press release issued by Sindh Police on Wednesday.

The police also seizied 200 hand grenades, 2000 rifle grenades, 140 bullet-proof jackets and huge quantity of ammunition.