KARACHI, Dec 24: A Sindh-based Pashtoon nationalist leader, Amin Khattak, was arrested at the Karachi airport while allegedly carrying an unlicensed pistol, the police said.

They said the Airport Security Force, while screening the briefcase of Amin Khattak, President, National Awami Party, Sindh, found an unloaded pistol.

The police said he failed to produce the licence. The ASF handed him over to the Airport police, where he was booked in an FIR No.171/2002 under section 13-D Arms Ordinance for keeping illegal weapon, the police added.

However, the sources said Amin Khattak expressed his ignorance about the presence of a pistol in his briefcase and said he was being implicated in a false and fabricated case.