QUETTA: Thirty-four people, including a former official of the Afghan Ministry of Defence, a woman and a child, were arrested by law enforcement agencies in two separate incidents on Friday. | “Abdul Rehman, a former official of the Afghan Defence Ministry, was arrested in the area of Chaman for entering Pakistan illegally. Frontier Corps also found Rs 250,000, a similar amount in Afghan currency and documents of the Afghan Defence Ministry...” |
Abdul Rehman, a former official of the Afghan Defence Ministry according to government sources, was arrested in the Pak-Afghan border area of Chaman for entering Pakistan illegally. Frontier Corps spokesman Mohammad Shahid said that Rehman had been arrested near Bab-e-Dosti. “The FC also found Rs 250,000, a similar amount in Afghan currency and documents of the Afghan Defence Ministry from Rehman’s possession,” Shahid said. Separately, security forces arrested 33 Afghan and Iranian nationals, including a woman and a child, in the Pak-Afghan border area of Noshaki. FC Commandant Officer Col Tanvir Hussain said the arrested people were being interrogated, adding that some of the arrested suspects were hiding their nationalities from the Pakistani authorities.
Meanwhile, Pakistani border guards on Friday deported 124 Afghans after holding them for two weeks for entering without travel documents, AP reported. The men, who were caught in various parts of Balochistan, were handed over to Afghan officials at Chaman, said Ali Mohammed, an official with the Frontier Corps. “These people were not Taliban. They were arrested as they had sneaked into Pakistan without travel documents,” he said. |