Pakistani Police Make Largest-Ever Weapons Seizure Near Afghan Border

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Pakistani Police Make Largest-Ever Weapons Seizure Near Afghan Border

Pakistani police have made the country's largest-ever seizure of arms and ammunition, allegedly smuggled from neighboring Afghanistan, a senior police official said Saturday.

Pakistani police have made the country's largest-ever seizure of arms and ammunition, allegedly smuggled from neighboring Afghanistan, a senior police official said Saturday.

The weapons, found buried in an empty house on the outskirts of Quetta on Friday, could have been used for terrorist attacks, Balochistan province police chief Shoaib Suddle said. Two suspects have been detained in the case.

Suddle said police recovered 124 submachine guns, 248 rifles, one recoilless rifle, two mortars, 342 mortar bombs, rockets and almost 30,000 rounds of ammunition.

Police and troops in Quetta have recently arrested dozens of foreign nationals on suspicion of links with Afghanistan's now-defunct Taliban movement and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.

"We are doing our level best to arrest fleeing foreign fighters," Suddle said.

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