PARACHINAR, March 25: Security forces arrested six militants and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition from their possession during a search operation in Kurram Agency on Sunday morning, official sources said.

They said that security forces raided a hideout of militants in Kurt, a village of central Kurram, on a tip off and arrested six militants. They said that a large quantity of explosives, detonators, detonating cords and various kinds of small arms were also recovered from the hideout.

They said that the seized arms included several lethal automatic weapons. The arrested militants were shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation, they added.

The sources said that the explosives were presumably meant for targeting convoy of security forces.

They said that the arrested militants belonged to Hafiz Daulat group, a local militant outfit affiliated with defunct Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

Kurt village of Kurram tribal region is near the border of Hangu district, a settled area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, that witnessed sectarian unrest in the recent past.

Official sources claimed that terrorists were flushed out from the area during military operation ‘Koh-i-Sofaid’, launched in July last year.