MANSEHRA, Feb 7: Mansehra police on Tuesday seized 180 bottles of locally-made liquor and arrested two persons under article 3/4 of the PEHO.

The bottles were recovered from the car of Sajid son of Abdur Rehman, resident of Chananai, near Hunza Flour Mills on Karakoram Highway.

The police arrested Sajid and driver of the car. A local magistrate remanded them into the police custody.

The city police have also recovered a 30-bore unlicensed pistol with 130 bullets, 100 bullets of Kalashnikov and 20 bullets of the 303 rifle from the possession of Waliur Rehman of Allai Batgram district.

He was arrested from the municipal bus stand Mansehra.

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