KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), Dec 30: A large cache of weapons has been seized after a raid on a village near the Pakistan- Afghanistan border, officials said here Monday.

Authorities acted after they received information regarding a bid to smuggle arms to be used for terrorist activities through the Bajaur tribal agency.

Officials said they raided the Nakhtar village near the border, recovering rockets, missiles and anti-tank mines, assistant political agent Abdul Jabbar Shah told a news briefing here.

He said that recovered weapons included 12 Russian-made surface-to-surface and three surface-to-air missiles, 22 rocket launchers and 30 shells, 12 anti-tank mines and hundreds of Kalashnikov rifle rounds.

The weapons were hidden near a security agency post located near the border, he said.

Sources told Dawn that some of the weapons also carried the “Made in India” mark and its condition indicated that the weapons were new.

The sources said that the cache had apparently been smuggled into the tribal agency from Afghanistan for onward smuggling into major cities for terrorist acts.

Authorities have stepped up investigation to identify the elements involved in the attempt to smuggle arms.