KOHAT, March 27 Police foiled an attempt to smuggle arms and ammunition to Quetta from the tribal area and arrested the carrier on the Indus Highway on Friday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Janglekhel police arrested a man travelling in a Quetta-bound bus near the new toll plaza and seized from him one Kalashnikov, six pistols, 13 chargers and 320 cartridges.
According to police, the accused, identified as Bilal, resident of the Mattani area in Peshawar, confessed that he was smuggling the arms to Quetta from the tribal area. Police registered an FIR against the accused.
IMAM INJURED Unidentified motorcyclists shot and injured a prayer leader of a mosque on the Dhodha road on Friday.
Maulana Rafiullah was going home from the mosque when the motorcyclists fired on him.
He was taken to the KDA Divisional Headquarters Hospital where doctors referred him to Peshawar because of his critical condition. The Saddar police registered a case.
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