CHITRAL, June 15: Police have been interrogating four activists of a ‘jihadi’ outfit arrested on Sunday last. Officials said that explosives were also recovered from their possession.

An official said the Chitral Scouts had arrested four persons coming from the neighbouring Upper Dir district.

The official declined to disclose the name of the alleged ‘jihadi’ outfit to which the arrested men belonged.

The men were produced before a civil court judge in Droosh two days back who remanded them in police custody.

Paramilitary forces had apprehended the men from a passenger coach at Mirkhani post. Explosive materials, including 50 detonators, 10kg explosive powder, 13 batteries, 200 meters of electric wire, 35kg white powder, one bundle of electric fuse and jackets and a cash amount of Rs274,000 were recovered from their possessions.

The arrested persons were identified as Habibur Rehman (hailing from Afghanistan), Mohammad Imran (Karachi), Shabbir Ahmed (Azad Kashmir) and Inayat Khan (Malakand).

The arrested men told investigators that they were on way to Afghanistan’s Nooristan province via Arandu and confessed to having received militant training, sources said.

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