LANDI KOTAL: Frontier Corps (FC) personnel have found a huge cache of arms and ammunition from hideouts of suspected militants during search operations in different areas of Bara in Khyber Agency.

FC sources told Dawn that raids were conducted on the basis of information about different types of weapons stored in Ghaibee Neeka area of Sipah.

The weapons and ammunition stocked in caves and tunnels included anti-aircraft guns, rockets, mortars, light combat weapons and thousands of kilogrammes of explosives.

The area was a stronghold of Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) before the launch of Khyber One military operation in October last year.

The FC personnel also busted the training centres and private jails set up by the banned outfit in the area about 25km south of Bara market.

LI activists were living in mountainous border areas when the operation began and they moved to Maziyan district of Nangrahar province of Afghanistan after the operation was extended to parts of Tirah valley.

Caves and tunnels in the areas, security officials said, were infested with landmines and stocks of arms and ammunition.

Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2015

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