PESHAWAR, June 22: The Crimes Investigation Department (CID) has foiled an attempt of smuggling small arms to Quetta and arrested a smuggler on Monday night.

A CID team was constituted after a tip-off about the smuggling from Dara Adamkhel to Quetta, said Assistant Inspector General Sajid Ali Khan at a press conference on Tuesday.

The CID team was vigilant around the general bus stand. At 10:30pm it intercepted a Suzuki jeep (Peshawar-G 6691) and upon thorough search seized 151 pistols of different calibres and 1024 live rounds packed in two cartons.

The DIG said that Khan Asghar, a resident of Hangu, was arrested. He had planned to smuggle the arms to Quetta. "Right now we cannot say the exact purpose of the smuggling to Quetta as his name is not on a CID list of regular arms smugglers," Mr Khan said. "He may have links with terrorists in Quetta," he added.