The raid was carried out in Shahkas village near Jamrud in Khyber tribal
region which is close to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
At least 60 bags of potassium chlorate, mortar shells, timers, landmines, detonators, fuses, improvised bomb circuits and gel explosives were recovered from the basement of the house, Colonel Mohammad Naeem Sarwar told AFP.
A suspect was tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
during the raid, which was carried out after a roadside kaboom maimed three civilians in the area on Saturday, he said.
"The site was being used to make bombs for terrorist activities in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore," Sarwar said.
Authorities last week said they had raided a boom-mobile factory in the southwestern city of Quetta, confiscating more than 100 tonnes of chemicals which had been used in recent attacks.