 City police on Wednesday arrested four men, including an Afghan national, suspected of supplying weapons to a banned militant organisation and seized explosives, timers, detonators and remote control devices from them, a police official said. Aftab Ahmad Cheema, the senior superintendent of police (SSP) for operations, said that Cantt division police, acting on a tip off, arrested the four men on Habibullah Road. They were in a car in which police found explosive, 32 timers, 26 detonators, 36 batteries and remote controls, he said.The men were identified as Gul Rehman, an Afghan national, Khan Bahadur, a resident of the tribal areas, and Muhammad Mudasar Alam and Arshad Ali of Lahore. The SSP said that the four appeared to be weapons suppliers. However, police sources said that Alam and Ali were actually arrested separately a few days ago in Misri Shah in possession of a rifle, a pump action, 20 bullets and some cartridges. The two reportedly confessed they smuggled weapons from the tribal areas and gave the whereabouts of Rehman and Bahadur. |