JALALABAD, Nov 14: Security forces in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday detained two Pakistani nationals with home-made bombs on a road heading towards the Pakistani border, a police spokesman said.

The men were captured in Marko, a small town along the highway which links the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar to the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, the spokesman said.

Their names and affiliations were not revealed.

“We captured two Pakistani terrorists who were carrying bombs. They were travelling to Nangarhar from Peshawar,” provincial police spokesman Ghafoor Khan said.

The bombs were made of explosives placed in pressure cookers, he said, adding that police helped by foreign troops were working to dismantle the devices.

He did not say what group the men were linked with, but similar devices have been used by Taliban militants waging an increasingly deadly insurgency, more than five years after the movement was ousted by US-led forces.—AFP