Huge cache of arms seized

Published April 28, 2003

PESHAWAR, April 27: Political authorities of the Kurram Agency recovered Russian-made missiles, mortar shells and remote-control bombs from a house in Mata Sangar on Sunday, officials said.

They said the Levy force raided the house of an Afghan national, Bahadur Khan Kharoti, in Mata Sangar village near the Pakistan-Afghan border and seized a huge quantity of weapons.

The weapons included 99 missile, 40 mortar shell, three anti-tank mines, six remote-control bomb and 27 missile’s fuse.  

The Afghan national has been arrested.