KOHAT, March 27: Security forces on Thursday arrested two suspected militants in Spina Thana area and confiscated their pick-up.

The suspects, said to be members of a gang supplying arms and ammunition to Taliban in Khyber Agency and the Kohat frontier region, are being interrogated.

Senior military officials expect to get information about the number of local and foreign militants and their supply line during the interrogation.

Meanwhile, the Kohat police claimed to have foiled an attempt to smuggle a huge quantity of arms to southern areas of the country and arrested two people on the Indus Highway.

The Saddar police checked a van on the Kohat-Bannu road and seized five pistols, one 12-bore gun, one Kalashinkov and 820 cartridges of different bores.

The arrested men were identified as Mohammad Sultan of Tank and Sher Mohammad of Lakki Marwat.

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