SUKKUR: Police claimed to have recovered a large cache of weapons during search of a pickup vehicle on a section of link road in Farooqi Gagh area near Kashmore and arrested five members of an interprovincial gang of arms traffickers on Friday.

Police officials said that they received a tip-off about the pickup smuggling arms and started searching vehicles on the road when they found a hand grenade, a G-3 rifle, two pistols, and 2000 bullets hidden in secret compartments of a Suzuki vehicle.

“We have also arrested five people onboard and impounded the vehicle,” they said.

They said that the suspects identified as Ejaz Ahmed Awan, Riaz Rajput, Haseeb Awan, Mohammad Nazar Kobhar and Aslam Kobhar confessed during initial interrogation that they were members of an interprovincial gang of arms smugglers and operated between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and different areas of Sindh and Punjab.

They said that police were collecting criminal records of the suspects from different police stations in other districts.

Meanwhile, a case has been registered against the suspects at Kashmore police station on charges of arms smuggling.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2024