KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Monday claimed to have seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition allegedly belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London from a government school in New Karachi.

A Rangers spokesperson said in a statement that the paramilitary force received secret information that some “miscreants affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (London)” had hidden arms and ammunition in a school (Godhra Tameer-i-Millat School) in New Karachi’s Sector F-11 with an intention to carry out terror acts in the metropolis.

The Rangers immediately searched the school and seized arms stashed underground.

The seized weapons include four light-machine guns with 258 rounds, two 8-mm rifles with two magazines, two 7-mm rifles with 74 rounds, five 12-bore pistols, two 224-rifles, one 44-bore rifle with one magazine, one 222-rifle with 30 rounds, two 30-bore pistol with three magazines, two 9mm pistols with two magazines, two 0.22 rifles with three magazines and 403 rounds of SMGs, 35 rounds of 0.22 rifle and three telescope, the statement said.

Published in Dawn, March 14th, 2017