Source: NNI
A day before the visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Pakistani authorities have confiscated huge quantity of arms including 120 rockets and their batteries at the bordering town Miranshah of North Waziristan Agency located just close to Eastern Afghanistan's province Paktia and Paktika. "The rockets confiscated are Russian made and are battery driven," an political administration revealed to NNI here Sunday.
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The rockets declared very dangerous and having accuracy of almost 100 percent were tried to smuggle into Pakistan in a truck apparently carrying grass for the animals, the official said. The truck was confiscated in wee hours Monday that was carrying these sophisticated rockets. According to the official, the truck drove into Pakistani tribal areas from the check post of Asia. The operation was conducted by Post Commander Hazrt Illah and was supervised by Political Agent (local administration in Pakistani tribal areas are named as political agent of the federation), Ghulam Farooq Khan and Assistant Political Agent Zaheerul Islam.
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According to the Pakistani authorities, the most sophisticated rockets of Russian made were tried to store in Pakistani tribal areas under a terrorist plan of wide range in the country. The rockets might also belong to the remnants of al-Qaida and Taliban for their future terrorist plans in Afghanistan where the remnants are attacking US interests daily, it is suspected at official level. The Pakistani authorities have also arrested a driver of the truck and hope some sensational information from him and are investigating.
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