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India-Pakistan
Police arrest two suspected terrorists, 2 arms smugglers
2008-07-07
Police officials arrested four men on Sunday in two separate incidents, seizing explosives and ammunition, satellite channels reported. Rajanpur Police foiled a plot to blow up a school van and arrested an alleged terrorist along with his accomplice in the Dajal area of Rajanpur district, Express News reported. According to the channel, one of the alleged terrorists, Abdul Rehman, belongs to Balochistan and is suspect in various terrorist attacks across the country like blowing up railway tracks in Sindh and Balochistan. The other, Shafeeq, hails from Punjab. Bomb disposal squad was called on the site to defuse the explosives seized from the men, the channel added.

Meanwhile, Faisalabad police arrested two people and seized weapons during a search of a suspicious car in Civil Lines area of the city, Samaa TV reported. According to the channel, the police, on a tip-off, stopped a car in the Civil Lines area and seized about 10,000 bullets, 10 pistols, 5 rifles, a repeater gun and other weapons. Faisalabad Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operation Aslam Tareen told the channel that the two arrested men, namely Niaz Hussain and Mujahid Hussain had disclosed during initial investigation that they had brought arms from the Tribal Areas of Dara and Khyber Agency and intended to supply them to criminals in various areas. The channel quoted Tareen as saying that the men claimed complicity of many police officials in the supply of arms to the criminals.
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