Afghan agent arrested from Balochistan: FC official

E-Paper | July 13, 2026

QUETTA: An agent working for the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan's premier spy agency – was arrested from Chaman district in Balochistan Wednesday morning, officials said.

A Frontier Corps (FC) spokesman said personnel conducted a raid on a compound in Boghra, a residential and commercial area in Chaman, and picked up an agent working for the NDS.

Explosive materials, primacords, detonators, bombs and fuses recovered from the alleged agent's possession. ─ DawnNews

Explosive materials, primacords, detonators, bombs and fuses were also recovered from the agent's possession.

The spokesman said the 'spy' was supplying weapons and explosive materials for terrorist activities inside Balochistan.

Intelligence agencies are interrogating the agent, he added.

The arrest comes just weeks after forces arrested Kulbushan Jadhav, an Indian agent from Balochistan, who Pakistan said was involved in "terror activities" in the province.

Law enforcement agencies announced the arrest of Jadhav during an intelligence-based raid in Balochistan's Chaman last month.

The Indian Foreign Ministry earlier confirmed the arrested man was a former Indian Navy officer, but the Pakistani government claimed to have recovered travel documents and multiple fake identities of Jadhav, establishing him as an Indian spy who entered into Balochistan through Iran — holding a valid Iranian visa.

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Syed Ali Shah is DawnNews' Quetta bureau chief.

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TRUTHFUL

Apr 06, 2016 01:31pm

Good work. Expose these Afghanis which we hosted for years and are now biting us together with indians. Why are we not sealing the borders like many countries have done. Let us take a loan of billion or two and seal these borders effectively. This is the only way to protect our borders.

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Abdullah

Apr 06, 2016 01:34pm

Afghans are back stabbers.

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future

Apr 06, 2016 01:48pm

Good Job

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lafanga

Apr 06, 2016 01:54pm

So first we capture Indian RAW agent from Chaman area last week and now Afghan NDS agent from the same area. Good work by intel agencies. These two entities are working together to wreck havoc in Pakistan and kill innocent Pakistanis. Lean hard on both of them so they squeal and reveal other contacts.

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Ali khan

Apr 06, 2016 02:12pm

Y are we not hitting them? Only way to make them stop is to do the same to them!

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Khurram

Apr 06, 2016 02:13pm

And still our media tells us that both India and Afghanistan are friends. Well! arrest all such nuisances and punish them in a way that the banias' do not even think of trying again something like this.

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Tariq

Apr 06, 2016 02:13pm

well done. It is also essential that those who are arrested should be punished as well and highlighted at international forum.

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Kamran

Apr 06, 2016 02:33pm

Good job by our agencies! Keep it up!

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Malik

Apr 06, 2016 02:58pm

One of the primary aims of NDS is to destabilize Pakistan. So it should not be any surprise to anybody. NDS also funds many nationalist and ethnic based organizations around Pakistan. Also they arrange the meetings of many Ethnic leaders mainly in UAE, Qatar and Germany and it is an open secret.

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SAEED MASOOD

Apr 06, 2016 03:10pm

Excellent catch them all and crush their network...May God help you and protect you Inshahallah.

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lafanga

Apr 06, 2016 03:12pm

@TRUTHFUL It's not the common Afghanis. They love Pakistan. It's the old Northern Alliance dominated NDS which is mostly Uzbek or Tajik that is anti-Pakistan. We have to differentiate between good and bad Afghanis.

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danish abbas

Apr 06, 2016 03:14pm

Afghanistan never accept Pakistan...

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Jawad

Apr 06, 2016 03:17pm

This wouldn't have happened if Pakistan had sealed the whole border with afghansitan. None of the attacks would have happened in Pakistan if we didn't have allowed afghani refugees in Pakistan during 80s. I'm sure Pakistan leadership regrets this.

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Aatir ehrar

Apr 06, 2016 03:17pm

Excellently done.

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Cyrus

Apr 06, 2016 03:29pm

The Afghans are not your brothers.

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Cyrus

Apr 06, 2016 03:33pm

@lafanga ... ... The Afghan warlords who deal in opium and heroin are in Kandahar.

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Ali

Apr 06, 2016 03:34pm

thats sad, Afghan should be on Pakistan side.

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Umer Salahuddin

Apr 06, 2016 03:53pm

Since 1947 Afghanistan always hostile towards Pakistan and support India. It allowed India to open many consulate in Afghanistan to create terrorism in Pakistan and also given hideouts to terrorists in Pakistan.

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Kashmiri Nationalist

Apr 06, 2016 04:04pm

RAW and it's local cohorts/partners getting exposed and crushed one by one.

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Kamal Pasha.

Apr 06, 2016 04:10pm

You can not trust Afghans.

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M. Siddique

Apr 06, 2016 04:19pm

In this arrest please check the RAW connection. We know active RAW operatives work out of Afghan Intelligence offices. ISI needs to get proactive to eliminate the threat.

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Amused Audience

Apr 06, 2016 04:53pm

It's so unfortunate that our government's response is so weak. Pakistan should immediately call Afghan ambassador and handover a strong protest against the nefarious activities of NDS which is without any doubt has backing of RAW of India. We need to be offensive on diplomatic front as well.

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Citizen

Apr 06, 2016 05:00pm

Pakistan is now working for peace / peace talks in Afghanistan, so NDS should not do such things, if they want peace in the region

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Citizen

Apr 06, 2016 05:03pm

This is we getting in response of keeping millions of afghans refugees for years. This is against Afghan traditions

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Faisal

Apr 06, 2016 05:23pm

Good job, but there is no end to this menace. In order to curb this situation, time has come to deport all afghan refugees from Pakistan.

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Zeen

Apr 06, 2016 05:24pm

This shows we need to work on building Confidence with Neighbor s in Security related matters.

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Ghaznavi

Apr 06, 2016 05:25pm

This how Afghans repay our help during the Soviet Occupation! What a ungrateful nation

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Asif Kashmiri

Apr 06, 2016 05:26pm

Great work

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GAK Wazir

Apr 06, 2016 05:43pm

Excellent FC Balochistan. The federal government should take up the issue seriously with the Afghan government and ask them why they are back stabbers along side India. Let the long porous borders with Afghanistan be sealed to stop incursion.

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Akil Akhtar

Apr 06, 2016 06:05pm

We must teach Afghanistan a lesson...

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khan

Apr 06, 2016 06:07pm

'spy' was supplying weapons and explosive materials for terrorist activities inside Balochistan. Shame on you,

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Imran A.

Apr 06, 2016 07:07pm

You can never expect any good from Afghans.

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Kashmiri

Apr 06, 2016 08:10pm

Time for Pakistan to hit them these proxy,

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Zak

Apr 06, 2016 08:32pm

NDS , the mini department of RAW, working against its own Afghan people.

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Janjuah

Apr 06, 2016 08:50pm

Every body knows that NDS and RAW are collusively supporting terrorism in Pakistan. Pakistan should pay back in the same coin.

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Ali Gohar

Apr 06, 2016 08:56pm

Kick out all Afghan refugees and seal the border with Afghanistan and India the two sources of terrorism.

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Algerian

Apr 06, 2016 08:58pm

Good work!!

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Ali

Apr 06, 2016 08:59pm

Everyday 40000 illegal people are crossing into Pakistan. This also must be stop. Every country has law. Pakistan must send all Afghani back home.

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awais

Apr 06, 2016 09:16pm

And they say we are innocent

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Omar

Apr 06, 2016 09:21pm

With each attest comes more intelligence and evidence. Keep up the good work guys!

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atif

Apr 06, 2016 09:22pm

My forefathers were Afghans who settled in Pakistan... Pakistan is my homeland which I love to the core and I have strong feelings about Afghanistan... All I want to say to my Afghan brothers don't bring shame to our name ... know who are you friends and enemies ... it is Pakistan who took us in and we owe it to our Pakistani brothers... lets work for a better future together... A proud Pashtun and Pakistani Afghani!!!!

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Truth Sayer

Apr 06, 2016 09:38pm

Excellent Work

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MMM

Apr 07, 2016 12:05am

I wouldn't be surprised if USA and other Western countires are condoning these activities. They want to contain China and in doing that they dont care how many millions of innocents are devastated.

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Hindutavi Rakshas

Apr 07, 2016 12:35am

Well done, Great work Fc, true son of soil nation is proud on your selfless work and sacrifice for nation. Keep up the good work.

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Hindutavi Rakshas

Apr 07, 2016 12:38am

@atif good to know

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Sub see Pele Pakistan

Apr 07, 2016 12:59am

@Abdullah Many of them are good friends of Pakistan too. Don't we have back stabbed from within as well.

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Muhammad

Apr 07, 2016 12:04pm

Seal the border with Afghanistan. We all know mainly religious or nationalist terrorist comes from that place.

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