RAWALPINDI: Police have seized a hand grenade and a threatening letter which were found lying inside the house of an expatriate near the Girja police post on Adiala Road on Tuesday.

Amanullah Khan, who is settled in Saudi Arabia, informed the emergency police that the hand grenade was lying inside his house when he entered it.

The police along with the Bomb Disposal Squad reached the scene and seized the hand grenade.

The bomb disposal experts believed that the device was locally made and a duplicate of a Russian hand grenade.

A handwritten threatening letter was also found with the explosive device which warned Mr Khan not to ask for the return of Rs25 million which someone in Jhelum had borrowed from him.

Mr Khan told the police that he along with his two sons was settled in Saudi Arabia and had come to Pakistan on vacations.

He said a man had borrowed the amount from him and was not paying it back to him.

The police said the hand grenade had been seized and an investigation launched to ascertain the circumstances in which it was placed in the house.

Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2018

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