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Security forces said they had foiled a major terrorism bid after the apprehended a vehicle laden with explosives and weapons close to the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman on Saturday morning.
A security official, who declined to be named, told Dawn that the seizure was made during a raid conducted by security forces near the border with Afghanistan.
Bomb disposal experts were called in to defuse the explosives inside the vehicle.
One suspect was arrested and shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
Security officials said the 'terrorists' had planned to smuggle the weapons and explosives to Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, for a "major terror attack".
"The timely information [we received helped us] foil [the] terror bid", an official said.
"An investigation is underway," he said, refusing to provide further information about the identity of the accused.
Security officials were unwilling to disclose the quantity of explosives and the number of weapons seized in the raid, citing the ongoing investigation.
Security has been tighten around the porous Afghan border to stop the flow of terrorists and weapons from neighboring Afghanistan after a wave of terrorist attacks across the country took more than 100 lives.
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I think the secret agencies of the world had made this world to be a bad place for living and if sincere work has not been started for bring peace to the world, then every one living on earth will suffer.
@shafi Khan Humanism first or else all will suffer in the end vasudhaiva kutumbakam message is the way to go in the future.
Good work by the security forces. Thank you.
First time for a change, the authorities have kept a tight lid on the cache of ammunition for posterity.
Congratulations to the security forces.
Who opened the border????
Good job, never trust people across the border...
Afghanistan border must be sealed. Nothing good can ever come from open checkpoints.
Time to take action against Afghan NDS and Indian RAW.
Fruits of Pakistan's policy of supporting Afghans in their war keeps finding the local soil time and again, the time is vital we do something about permanently unlike 80s, 90s when we let drugs and guns be an household commodities.
Shutdown the border against.
@shafi Khan i think agencies only serve the deep establishment that is always a gang up of the elites, democracies exist only in name. Real problem is the capitalist elites that is global. They have partners in the developing and third world countries which serve as their tentacles. Also wars are used by this global capitalist elite as a means of social control.
Pakistan must seal the border with Afghanistan to make sure secrifices of our soldiers dont go in vein