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India-Pakistan
Afghan spy, five militants arrested
2016-07-15
[DAWN] QUETTA: Security forces tossed in the slammer
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a suspected agent of the Afghan intelligence age­n­cy -- the National Direc­torate of Security (NDS) -- and five suspected turbans during an operation on the outskirts of the border town of Chaman on Wednesday.

According to official sources, a heavy exchange of fire took place between security forces and the turbans in the Gul Darra Bagheecha area of Chaman. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition and two ’explosives-laden’ vehicles were recovered from the hideout of the krazed killers.

"Those arrested included two Afghan nationals who had come to Chaman from Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
of Afgha­nistan with the NDS agent," a security official said.

According to sources, personnel of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
(FC) on information provided by an intelligence agency about the presence of a wanted man belonging to the NDS launched a search operation in the Gul Darra Bagheecha area.

As security forces cordoned off the area, they were fired upon by gunnies hiding in a compound. FC soldiers returned fire and a shootout continued for two hours. Finally security forces overpowered six gunnies and took them into custody.

Those arrested included three local people belonging to a banned krazed killer organization involved in raids on security forces, suicide atta­cks and other subversive ac­­ti­vities in different parts of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and other areas of the country, the sources said.

"Security forces found in the compound two cars with wires attached to them and believe that the cars may have been fitted with vehicle-born bombs."

The Bomb Disposal Squad of police department was called to check the vehicles. It had not cleared the vehicles till late in the night.

Arms and ammunition seized from the hideout of turbans included two rocket launchers, 11 landmines, two grenades, one Kalashnikov, one pistol and thousands of rounds of different weapons.

Those arrested were han­ded over to the authorities con­cerned.

"Earlier, security forces had carried out two operations to arrest the NDS agent, but each time he escaped and crossed into Afghan­istan," the official said.
Posted by:Fred

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